Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

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

Sarnoff, David

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

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

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

10.

Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Tourneur, Cyril

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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

12.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

17.

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Earnhardt, Dale

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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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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

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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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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?

Campolo, Tony

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Biondi, Matt

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

33.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

William Shakespeare

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

Repound, Renee

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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

39.

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

40.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

43.

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

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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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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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Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

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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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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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'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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese