Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Judd, H. Stanley

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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

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

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Bach, Richard

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Socrates

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

25.

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

Mother Teresa

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Phil Jackson

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Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

32.

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Lewis, C. S.

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People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.

Sculley, John

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Repound, Renee

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

Bible

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.

Blake, William

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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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There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Marden, Orison Swett