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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

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

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

12.

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

Bible

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

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

Lawrence, Harding

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My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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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

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

29.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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 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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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 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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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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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]

Bible

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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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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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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

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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 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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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.