Motivational Quotes

Joy

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

- George Bernard Shaw

Best Quotes about Joy

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Biondi, Matt

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

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Gillies, Jerry

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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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George Bernard Shaw

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Bach, Richard

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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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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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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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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'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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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I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry