Motivational Quotes

Joy

Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

- Ecclesiastes

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Judd, H. Stanley

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

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

Quarles, Francis

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

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

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

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

10.

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

Platen

11.

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.

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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If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Bradbury, Ray

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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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We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.

Repound, Renee

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

Lawrence, Harding

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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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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 only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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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If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

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

Bible

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

Socrates

27.

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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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

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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

30.

The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Talmud, The

37.

'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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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

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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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To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

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