Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

- Colgrove, Dr. Melba

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

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

Bible

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

Fox, Matthew

Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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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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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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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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Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

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To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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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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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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Repound, Renee

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Buddha

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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?

Campolo, Tony

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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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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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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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.