Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Repound, Renee

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

10.

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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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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May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Socrates

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If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

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

Sarnoff, David

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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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The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Gibbs, Joe

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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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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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! [Philippians 4:4]

Bible

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

Mother Teresa