Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy runs deeper than despair

- Boom, Corrie Ten

Best Quotes about Joy

Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

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

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

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

Repound, Renee

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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

10.

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

Fox, Matthew

11.

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

12.

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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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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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.

15.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

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

17.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

Bible

22.

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

23.

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

24.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

25.

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

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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

27.

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

Chuang Tzu

28.

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

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

Depew, Chauncey

31.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

32.

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

33.

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

Rohn, Jim

35.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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

37.

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

Harvey, Paul

38.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

39.

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

40.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

41.

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

Gillies, Jerry

42.

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

Quarles, Francis

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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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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

49.

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, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

May, Rollo