Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

- Wagner, Richard

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

Nin, Anais

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

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

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

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Lawrence, Harding

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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

19.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Platen

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

Bach, Richard

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

Quarles, Francis

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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 your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Bible

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Gillies, Jerry

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Bible

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Reade, Charles

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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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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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.