Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

1.

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

Mother Teresa

2.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

3.

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

Bach, Richard

4.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

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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

6.

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

William Shakespeare

7.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

8.

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

Homoka, Oscar

9.

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

10.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Confucius

11.

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

12.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

13.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

14.

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

Repound, Renee

15.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

16.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

17.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

18.

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

Hill, Napoleon

19.

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

20.

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

21.

A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

22.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Buck, Glen

27.

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

28.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

29.

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

30.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

31.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

32.

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

Biondi, Matt

33.

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

34.

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

Michel de Montaigne

35.

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

Platen

36.

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

Fox, Matthew

37.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

38.

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

39.

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

Rohn, Jim

40.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

41.

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

Harvey, Paul

42.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

43.

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

44.

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

45.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

46.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

50.

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

Lewis, C. S.