Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

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Best Quotes about Joy

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Thomas Campbell

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Carnegie, Dale

11.

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

Chuang Tzu

12.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

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

Hepburn, Katharine

16.

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

17.

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Platen

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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Nicklaus, Jack

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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 is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Ruskin, John

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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

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The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell

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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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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

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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

30.

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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Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.

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

Graham, Katherine

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Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Phil Jackson

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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Socrates

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bible

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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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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

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The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey