Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Joy

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

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

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

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

Gillies, Jerry

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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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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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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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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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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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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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No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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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I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

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

Bach, Richard

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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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Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Repound, Renee

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

32.

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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

34.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Dickinson, Emily

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Hill, Napoleon