Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Rohn, Jim

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

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

Mother Teresa

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

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

Bible

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

Gillies, Jerry

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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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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... 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 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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The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Bach, Richard

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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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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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

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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 not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Sarnoff, David

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If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

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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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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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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chuang Tzu

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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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

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

Bible

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Graham, Katherine