Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Biondi, Matt

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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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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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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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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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Sarnoff, David

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

40.

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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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

Platen

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Bach, Richard