Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

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

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

Thomas Campbell

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Thackeray, William M.

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Rosten, Leo

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Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.

Socrates

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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

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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Lawrence, Harding

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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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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

William Shakespeare

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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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My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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.

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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

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Anderson, Greg

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Vauclain, Samuel