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

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

Hogan, Ben

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

Wilder, Thornton

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

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Leboeuf, Michael

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

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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 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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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

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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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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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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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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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

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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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There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

Bible

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

Harvey, Paul

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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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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

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

Repound, Renee

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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

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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 feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Gibbs, Joe

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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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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 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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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.

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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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The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell