Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Shoemaker, Samuel M.

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Hill, Napoleon

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

10.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

11.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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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 enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

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

Fox, Matthew

16.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Bible

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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

19.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

21.

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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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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

25.

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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Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

28.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

30.

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

31.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

32.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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

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

Platen

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Rosten, Leo

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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 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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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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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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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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'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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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

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