Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Anderson, Greg

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

Biondi, Matt

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 can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Judd, H. Stanley

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

13.

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

14.

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

15.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

17.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

18.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

19.

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

Mother Teresa

20.

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

24.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

25.

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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

27.

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

31.

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

Thackeray, William M.

32.

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

Rohn, Jim

33.

Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

Sarnoff, David

34.

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

35.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Bach, Richard

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People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

Gibbs, Joe

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

40.

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

41.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

42.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

43.

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

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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

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

Fox, Matthew

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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 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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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.