Motivational Quotes

Joy

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Joy

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

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

Sarnoff, David

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Fox, Matthew

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

11.

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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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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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

19.

... 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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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 only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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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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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The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

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The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

Schwab, Charles M.

31.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

Nin, Anais

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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