Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

- Colgrove, Dr. Melba

Best Quotes about Joy

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

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Rohn, Jim

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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 joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Fox, Matthew

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Rosten, Leo

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

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

William Shakespeare

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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 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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Bible

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Gillies, Jerry

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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.