Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy, has no cost.

- Williamson, Marianne

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Carnegie, Dale

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.

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

Homoka, Oscar

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.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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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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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 only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Gillies, Jerry

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Earnhardt, Dale

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

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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

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I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

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

Platen

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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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

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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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