Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Thackeray, William M.

Best Quotes about Joy

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

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

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Harvey, Paul

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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

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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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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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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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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Platen

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

William Shakespeare

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Rosten, Leo

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

Schwab, Charles M.

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A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel