Motivational Quotes

Joy

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

- Buck, Glen

Best Quotes about Joy

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

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Platen

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

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

12.

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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Fox, Matthew

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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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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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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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Gibbs, Joe

37.

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

Lawrence, Harding

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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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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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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

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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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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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Beecher, Henry Ward