Motivational Quotes

Joy

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Fox, Matthew

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

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

Sir Edward Dyer

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

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Reade, Charles

I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

12.

'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

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

Bible

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There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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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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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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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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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Mother Teresa

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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 only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

33.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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

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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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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 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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You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Repound, Renee

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

Thomas Campbell

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.