Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Judd, H. Stanley

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Hogan, Ben

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

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.

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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Thomas Campbell

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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

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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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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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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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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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

Sarnoff, David

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

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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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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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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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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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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.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Bach, Richard