Motivational Quotes

Joy

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

- Sikorski, Gerry

Best Quotes about Joy

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Graham, Katherine

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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

11.

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

Socrates

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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 not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Homoka, Oscar

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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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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.

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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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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

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