Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

Mother Teresa

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?

Campolo, Tony

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

Platen

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

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

Caddy, Eileen

May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Graham, Katherine

10.

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

11.

What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

Gillies, Jerry

12.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

18.

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

32.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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

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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Bible

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

Buddha