Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Shoemaker, Samuel M.

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Repound, Renee

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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.

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Bradbury, Ray

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

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

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

Chuang Tzu

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

Lawrence, Harding

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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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

14.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Platen

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Socrates

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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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People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

Gibbs, Joe

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

Bible

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

23.

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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, 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 a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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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 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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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

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

William Shakespeare

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Thomas Campbell

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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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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