Motivational Quotes

Joy

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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Best Quotes about Joy

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

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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

11.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

12.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

13.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

14.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

15.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

20.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Anderson, Greg

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

Biondi, Matt

23.

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

Rosten, Leo

25.

Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

Sarnoff, David

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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.

27.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Fox, Matthew

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

31.

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

Graf, Steffi

32.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Repound, Renee

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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

40.

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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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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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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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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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.