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

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

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Mother Teresa

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Twain, Mark

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

Bible

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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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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I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

Bible

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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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If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

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

Platen

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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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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