Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Homoka, Oscar

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

Lawrence, Harding

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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.

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

Chuang Tzu

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

Fox, Matthew

11.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

12.

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

13.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

15.

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

17.

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

Biondi, Matt

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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

25.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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

31.

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

Bach, Richard

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

40.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

William Shakespeare

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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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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Sarnoff, David

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert