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

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

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

Earnhardt, Dale

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.

Sculley, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Gibbs, Joe

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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

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

Michel de Montaigne

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If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

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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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A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Socrates

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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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