Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

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Best Quotes about Joy

The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

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

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

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

Tourneur, Cyril

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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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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People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

Gibbs, Joe

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

Talmud, The

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

Wilder, Thornton

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

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

Thomas Campbell

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People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.

Sculley, John

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

Homoka, Oscar

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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Socrates

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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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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

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Bradbury, Ray

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Harvey, Paul

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Depew, Chauncey

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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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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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Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

Sarnoff, David

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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von