Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Lewis, C. S.

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

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

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

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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 joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

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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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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Twain, Mark

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hogan, Ben

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A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lewis, C. S.

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Graham, Katherine

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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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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Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

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I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]