Motivational Quotes

Joy

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

- Edward Chapin

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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.

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

Hogan, Ben

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

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

Graf, Steffi

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

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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

11.

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

Sarnoff, David

12.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Lawrence, Harding

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Michel de Montaigne

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People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.

Sculley, John

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

Repound, Renee

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

Harvey, Paul

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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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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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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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Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

William Shakespeare

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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 only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

Browning, Robert

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Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.