Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Thackeray, William M.

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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

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

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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.

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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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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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

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Lawrence, Harding

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Bible

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

Socrates

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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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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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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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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Phil Jackson

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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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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

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