Motivational Quotes

Joy

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.

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Repound, Renee

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.

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Bach, Richard

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fox, Matthew

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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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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Socrates

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bible

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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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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

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Nicklaus, Jack

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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