Motivational Quotes

Joy

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]

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Best Quotes about Joy

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Graf, Steffi

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Talmud, The

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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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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Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

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Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! [Philippians 4:4]

Bible

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

Graham, Katherine

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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

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Depew, Chauncey

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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

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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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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

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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.