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

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Gibbs, Joe

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

11.

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

12.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

13.

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

14.

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Bradbury, Ray

15.

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 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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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

Nin, Anais

18.

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

Bach, Richard

20.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Depew, Chauncey

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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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Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Lawrence, Harding

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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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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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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

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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.

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Socrates

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

Rosten, Leo