Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Fox, Matthew

Best Quotes about Joy

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.

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

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.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Mother Teresa

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Quarles, Francis

10.

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

11.

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

Harvey, Paul

12.

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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Gillies, Jerry

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Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Tourneur, Cyril

17.

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

Hogan, Ben

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

19.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

20.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

21.

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

Fox, Matthew

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Platen

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

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.

32.

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

Sarnoff, David

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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

42.

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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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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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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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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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

48.

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

Socrates

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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