Motivational Quotes

Joy

The only joy in the world is to begin.

- Cesare Pavese

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bible

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Homoka, Oscar

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

10.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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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

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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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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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.

27.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

28.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

Gillies, Jerry

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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

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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 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.

33.

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

34.

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

Socrates

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Anderson, Greg

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Gillies, Jerry

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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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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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May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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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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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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The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.