Motivational Quotes

Joy

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

- Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Best Quotes about Joy

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mother Teresa

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

Caddy, Eileen

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Socrates

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

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

Repound, Renee

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

Bible

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

Graham, Katherine

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Bradbury, Ray

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I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

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

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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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Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

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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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What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

Gillies, Jerry

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Harvey, Paul

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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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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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

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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