Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Ninon de Lenclos

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Reade, Charles

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

16.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

21.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Phil Jackson

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

Harvey, Paul

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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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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

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

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Repound, Renee

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

Socrates

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Sarnoff, David

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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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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Thackeray, William M.

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