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

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

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

Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Bible

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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Socrates

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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Repound, Renee

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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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'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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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