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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

12.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

Gillies, Jerry

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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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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 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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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.

28.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

30.

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

Graham, Katherine

31.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

40.

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

41.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Buck, Glen

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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 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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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.