Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

10.

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

'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

15.

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

Fox, Matthew

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Waitley, Denis

19.

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

20.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Talmud, The

23.

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

Buck, Glen

24.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

25.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

26.

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

Thackeray, William M.

30.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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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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Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Aurelius, Marcus

33.

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

Caddy, Eileen

35.

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

Harvey, Paul

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

37.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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

43.

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

44.

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

Homoka, Oscar

45.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

46.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sarnoff, David

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The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

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

William Shakespeare