Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

- May, Rollo

Best Quotes about Joy

If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

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

Fox, Matthew

I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

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

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

The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bible

11.

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

Graham, Katherine

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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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Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

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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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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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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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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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The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Platen

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Bible

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

Lawrence, Harding

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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

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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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Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

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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.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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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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