Motivational Quotes

Joy

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

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

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

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

11.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

12.

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

Rosten, Leo

13.

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

14.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

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

Lewis, C. 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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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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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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My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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

24.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Gibbs, Joe

27.

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.

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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

29.

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

30.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

32.

'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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If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Thackeray, William M.

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Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Phil Jackson

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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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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

39.

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

Bach, Richard

40.

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

Buddha

43.

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

Graham, Katherine

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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 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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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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

49.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Gillies, Jerry