Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Bible

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Caddy, Eileen

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

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

11.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

William Shakespeare

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

Socrates

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

Lawrence, Harding

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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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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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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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 enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Gillies, Jerry

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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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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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The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Reade, Charles

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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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Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! [Philippians 4:4]

Bible

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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

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Harvey, Paul

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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