Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

'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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Mother Teresa

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

Ninon de Lenclos

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

10.

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.

11.

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

Lawrence, Harding

13.

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

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

20.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

21.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

24.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

25.

I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

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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

27.

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Harvey, Paul

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

William Shakespeare

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

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

35.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

36.

What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

Gillies, Jerry

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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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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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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

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

Hogan, Ben

41.

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

Graham, Katherine

42.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

43.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Fox, Matthew

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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

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese