Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Best Quotes about Joy

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Gibbs, Joe

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

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

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

Tourneur, Cyril

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

10.

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

Socrates

11.

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

12.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Depew, Chauncey

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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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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Reade, Charles

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

Platen

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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

21.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

22.

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

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

27.

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

28.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

30.

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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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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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

34.

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

35.

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

Sarnoff, David

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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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The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Bach, Richard

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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

44.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Buddha

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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

49.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

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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