Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Talmud, The

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

Biondi, Matt

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Sarnoff, David

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

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

Waitley, Denis

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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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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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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.

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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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

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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

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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

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

Bach, Richard

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

Platen

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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

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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Fox, Matthew

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To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

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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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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Repound, Renee

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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