Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Vauclain, Samuel

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

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

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

Sarnoff, David

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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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.

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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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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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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ruskin, John

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Rosten, Leo

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Platen

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Repound, Renee

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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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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 is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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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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, 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