Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Joy

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Lewis, C. S.

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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Twain, Mark

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Rosten, Leo

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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

20.

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

21.

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

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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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 runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Platen

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.