Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Ninon de Lenclos

Best Quotes about Joy

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

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Thackeray, William M.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Depew, Chauncey

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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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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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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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The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

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

Socrates

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

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

Graham, Katherine

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bible

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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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As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

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If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Bradbury, Ray

41.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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