Motivational Quotes

Joy

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

- Sikorski, Gerry

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Homoka, Oscar

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Michel de Montaigne

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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

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If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Bradbury, Ray

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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 more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Bible

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Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

34.

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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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

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

Bach, Richard