Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Gillies, Jerry

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

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

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

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

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Graham, Katherine

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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Platen

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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 joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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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As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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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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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

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

Repound, Renee

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Socrates

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Hill, Napoleon