Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Joy

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

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

Chuang Tzu

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

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

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

11.

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

12.

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

15.

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.

Liebman, Joshua Loth

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Platen

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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

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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 love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

41.

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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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

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

Judd, H. Stanley

44.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

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

Bradbury, Ray

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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Marden, Orison Swett