Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Joy

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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.

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

Bach, Richard

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.

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Lawrence, Harding

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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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Anderson, Greg

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

Ninon de Lenclos

18.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Rosten, Leo

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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thackeray, William M.

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

45.

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Phil Jackson

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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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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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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]

Bible

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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