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

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

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

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Platen

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

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

11.

People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

Gibbs, Joe

12.

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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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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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Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Harvey, Paul

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To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

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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

23.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

25.

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

Graham, Katherine

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

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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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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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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 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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Thackeray, William M.

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