Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

12.

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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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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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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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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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'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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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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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

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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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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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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Liebman, Joshua Loth

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Bible

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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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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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

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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

William Shakespeare