Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Shoemaker, Samuel M.

Best Quotes about Joy

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

'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

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

Repound, Renee

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

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

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

10.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

17.

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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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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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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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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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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

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

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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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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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Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Rosten, Leo

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

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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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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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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

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

Fox, Matthew

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard