Motivational Quotes

Joy

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

- Jerry Van Amerongen

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Thomas Campbell

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

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

Bible

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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

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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Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

11.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

12.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

13.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

14.

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

15.

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

Graf, Steffi

16.

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

17.

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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Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Tourneur, Cyril

19.

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.

20.

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

Biondi, Matt

21.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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

30.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

31.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

32.

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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Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

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If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

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What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Leacock, Stephen B.

36.

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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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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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 joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

40.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

41.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

42.

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

Thackeray, William M.

43.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

44.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Bach, Richard

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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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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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Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

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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

49.

Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

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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