Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Ninon de Lenclos

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Socrates

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

Leboeuf, Michael

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

Hogan, Ben

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

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

Depew, Chauncey

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Fox, Matthew

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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Sarnoff, David

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

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The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Bach, Richard

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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