Motivational Quotes

Joy

The only joy in the world is to begin.

- Cesare Pavese

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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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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As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

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

Bible

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Bach, Richard

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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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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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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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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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Platen

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Quarles, Francis

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

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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

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

Bible

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

Hubbard, Elbert