Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

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

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.

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

Bible

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

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

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Talmud, The

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

10.

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

Bible

11.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

12.

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

Harvey, Paul

13.

Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Platen

14.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

15.

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

Bradbury, Ray

16.

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

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

18.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

19.

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

Depew, Chauncey

20.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

21.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Sarnoff, David

23.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

28.

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

Reade, Charles

29.

The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

30.

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

31.

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

Carnegie, Dale

32.

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

Fox, Matthew

33.

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

Hill, Napoleon

34.

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

Lewis, C. S.

35.

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

Biondi, Matt

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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

38.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

42.

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

43.

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.

44.

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

Hill, Napoleon

46.

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

Anderson, Greg

47.

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

Hogan, Ben

48.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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