Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Shoemaker, Samuel M.

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Biondi, Matt

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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

Harvey, Paul

The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Reade, Charles

10.

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

Graham, Katherine

11.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

12.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

13.

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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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

15.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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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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I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

Gibbs, Joe

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

Platen

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

25.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

26.

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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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

28.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

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

Bach, Richard

30.

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

Hogan, Ben

31.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.

Howe, Gordie

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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

39.

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

40.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

41.

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

Thackeray, William M.

43.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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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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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

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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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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese