Motivational Quotes

Joy

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Joy

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Lawrence, Harding

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

11.

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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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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.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Reade, Charles

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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Platen

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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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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

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

39.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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

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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

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

Sarnoff, David

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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.

46.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Harvey, Paul