Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Fox, Matthew

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Platen

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

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Repound, Renee

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

23.

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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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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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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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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.

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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

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Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

Sarnoff, David

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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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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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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