Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

Best Quotes about Joy

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

'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

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

Anderson, Greg

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Sir Edward Dyer

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.

Howe, Gordie

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

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

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

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

Bible

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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 runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Graham, Katherine

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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

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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bach, Richard

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I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Graf, Steffi

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Biondi, Matt

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Joy, has no cost.