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

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bible

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

Hepburn, Katharine

You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

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.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

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

William Shakespeare

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

Fox, Matthew

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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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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.

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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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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You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

34.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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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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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

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Lewis, C. S.

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If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

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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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'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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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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People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.

Sculley, John

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

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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