Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Joy

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

'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

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

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

Caddy, 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

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

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Sarnoff, David

10.

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

Harvey, Paul

11.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

12.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

13.

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

Socrates

14.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Repound, Renee

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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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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

23.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Tourneur, Cyril

25.

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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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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

28.

You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Carnegie, Dale

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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

30.

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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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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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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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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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

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You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Marden, Orison Swett

37.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Reade, Charles

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

Platen

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

Fox, Matthew

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

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

Bible

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.