Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Graham, Katherine

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

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

Bible

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

Repound, Renee

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Bach, Richard

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

William Shakespeare

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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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May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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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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'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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Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.

Socrates

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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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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Platen

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

Lawrence, Harding

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