Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Chuang Tzu

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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.

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

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

Ninon de Lenclos

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

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You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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

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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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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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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

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

Buck, Glen

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

Bach, Richard

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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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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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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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

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Platen

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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

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

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