Motivational Quotes

Joy

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

- Jerry Van Amerongen

Best Quotes about Joy

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

10.

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

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

15.

For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.

Stukane, Eileen

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

17.

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, 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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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 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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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

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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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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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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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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

26.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

28.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

30.

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

31.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

32.

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

Caddy, Eileen

33.

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

37.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Bible

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Repound, Renee

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

Gillies, Jerry

47.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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