Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Lewis, C. S.

Best Quotes about Joy

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Thackeray, William M.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

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

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Phil Jackson

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

May, Rollo

10.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

11.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

12.

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

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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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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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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Aurelius, Marcus

18.

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

Fox, Matthew

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May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.

21.

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

Reade, Charles

22.

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

Bach, Richard

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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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To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

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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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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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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 have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

Bible

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

Bible

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Biondi, Matt

32.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

33.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Tourneur, Cyril

46.

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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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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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

49.

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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If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen