Motivational Quotes

Joy

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

- Fremont, Jessie B.

Best Quotes about Joy

The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.

Liebman, Joshua Loth

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Repound, Renee

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Chuang Tzu

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

Bible

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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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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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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

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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

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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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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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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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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

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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.

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?

Campolo, Tony

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Socrates

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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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You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Carnegie, Dale

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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.