Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Leboeuf, Michael

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

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

Chuang Tzu

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

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

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

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

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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 is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Bible

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If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Bradbury, Ray

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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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My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

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

Platen

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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 is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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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

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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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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Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V