Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

'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

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

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

Anderson, Greg

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Reade, Charles

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Marden, Orison Swett

10.

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

12.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

13.

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

Quarles, Francis

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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

16.

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

Schwab, Charles M.

17.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

18.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

19.

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

20.

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

21.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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

23.

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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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

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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

26.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

27.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

28.

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

Lawrence, Harding

30.

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

Thomas Campbell

31.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

32.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

36.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

39.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

40.

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

41.

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

42.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

43.

A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.

44.

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

45.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

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

Graham, Katherine

48.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.