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

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

'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

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

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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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Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.

Socrates

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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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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People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

Gibbs, Joe

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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'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Thackeray, William M.

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The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

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We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.

Repound, Renee

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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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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

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

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

William Shakespeare

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

Thomas Campbell

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The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Fox, Matthew

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