Motivational Quotes

Joy

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

- Secker, Thomas

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Bible

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Leboeuf, Michael

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

William Shakespeare

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

Platen

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

10.

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

11.

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

18.

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

Lewis, C. S.

19.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

20.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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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.

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

Bible

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Repound, Renee

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Harvey, Paul

35.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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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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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

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

Socrates

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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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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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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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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'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

49.

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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner