Motivational Quotes

Joy

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Joy

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Graf, Steffi

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

Anderson, Greg

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Marden, Orison Swett

10.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

11.

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

12.

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

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Mother Teresa

18.

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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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.

30.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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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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My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Biondi, Matt

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