Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Fox, Matthew

Best Quotes about Joy

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

10.

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

Bradbury, Ray

11.

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

Harvey, Paul

12.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

13.

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

Fox, Matthew

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Bible

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Repound, Renee

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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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.

38.

You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Socrates

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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

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To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Sarnoff, David

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Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

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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.