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

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

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

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

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Quarles, Francis

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

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

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

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

Depew, Chauncey

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

15.

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Platen

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

Bach, Richard

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

24.

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Socrates

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Tourneur, Cyril

33.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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