Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Mother Teresa

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

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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]

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

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

Bach, Richard

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

Repound, Renee

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

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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