Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

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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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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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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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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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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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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 feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Gillies, Jerry

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Bible

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Repound, Renee

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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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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Thomas Campbell