Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

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

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.

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

Reade, Charles

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

Buddha

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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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Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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 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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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

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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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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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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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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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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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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Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! [Philippians 4:4]

Bible

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Socrates

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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

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