Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Earnhardt, Dale

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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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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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Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Phil Jackson

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

Sarnoff, David

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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

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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

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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

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

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If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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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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

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The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Blotnick, Srully

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

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

Quarles, Francis

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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