Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katharine

Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

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

Buck, Glen

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

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

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Repound, Renee

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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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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Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Bach, Richard

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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'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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Bible

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sarnoff, David

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.