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

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

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Vauclain, Samuel

'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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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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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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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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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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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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Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Platen

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

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

Caddy, Eileen

32.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

33.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Thomas Campbell

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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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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

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For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.

Stukane, Eileen

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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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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... 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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Sarnoff, David

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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 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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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