Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Joy

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Reade, Charles

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

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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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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

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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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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

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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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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rosten, Leo

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

William Shakespeare

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

Socrates

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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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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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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Lawrence, Harding

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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

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

Gillies, Jerry

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Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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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]

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