Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Judd, H. Stanley

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Waitley, Denis

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.

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

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

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

Graham, Katherine

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

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

Thomas Campbell

10.

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

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Platen

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

Sarnoff, David

15.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

23.

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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Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bible

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

32.

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.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

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

Fox, Matthew

40.

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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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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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

43.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.