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

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

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Reade, Charles

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.

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

Gillies, Jerry

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Sarnoff, David

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Phil Jackson

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Bible

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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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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I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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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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People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

Gibbs, Joe

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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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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]