Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Judd, H. Stanley

Best Quotes about Joy

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.

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

Bible

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

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

Repound, Renee

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

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

Sarnoff, David

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

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

Platen

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Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Phil Jackson

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Bach, Richard

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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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 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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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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People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.

Sculley, John

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

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

Gibbs, Joe

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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

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

Depew, Chauncey

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.