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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sarnoff, David

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Socrates

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Rosten, Leo

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Repound, Renee

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

Harvey, Paul

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The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

34.

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

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

Platen

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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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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

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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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