Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Anderson, Greg

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Bach, Richard

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

Graf, Steffi

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

18.

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

Rohn, Jim

19.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Socrates

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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

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I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

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

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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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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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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides