Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Shoemaker, Samuel M.

Best Quotes about Joy

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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.

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

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

Gillies, Jerry

If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

Nin, Anais

10.

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

11.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

12.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

13.

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

14.

I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

18.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

19.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

21.

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

22.

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

Rohn, Jim

25.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Gillies, Jerry

29.

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Vauclain, Samuel

32.

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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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

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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Fox, Matthew

40.

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

Chuang Tzu

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

43.

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

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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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.