Motivational Quotes

Joy

Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Graham, Katherine

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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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Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! [Philippians 4:4]

Bible

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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 sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

13.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Lawrence, Harding

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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

17.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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

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

Repound, Renee

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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

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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

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

Sarnoff, David

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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.

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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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Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.

Socrates

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

Platen

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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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

37.

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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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

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Depew, Chauncey

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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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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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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