Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Rosten, Leo

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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

12.

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

Talmud, The

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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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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

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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.

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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Hill, Napoleon

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

22.

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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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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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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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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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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

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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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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

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We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.

Repound, Renee

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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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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 runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Waitley, Denis