Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Thomas Campbell

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

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

Mother Teresa

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

Depew, Chauncey

The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.

Liebman, Joshua Loth

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

Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

Browning, Robert

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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'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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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

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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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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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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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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

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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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... 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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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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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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As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

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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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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