Motivational Quotes

Joy

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

- Thomas Campbell

Best Quotes about Joy

Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

Browning, Robert

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Ruskin, John

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Hepburn, Katharine

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.

Stukane, Eileen

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

Hogan, Ben

10.

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

11.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

12.

The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

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May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.

Marcia, Wieder

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No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

18.

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

Bible

19.

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

Nin, Anais

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Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

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What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

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With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Confucius

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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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My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

Bible

34.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

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The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

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He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.

Blake, William

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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Hill, Napoleon

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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

43.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

44.

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

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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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To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

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

Quarles, Francis

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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.