Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

- Stukane, Eileen

Best Quotes about Joy

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Blotnick, Srully

Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.

Socrates

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Bach, Richard

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?

Campolo, Tony

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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

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The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.

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... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

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I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

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The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.

Liebman, Joshua Loth

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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katharine

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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

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There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

May, Rollo

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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

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I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Tourneur, Cyril

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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Earnhardt, Dale

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Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Platen

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You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.

Howe, Gordie

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The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

43.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

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We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Nightingale, Earl

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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

Mother Teresa

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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin