Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Platen

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Gibbs, Joe

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

Bible

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.

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

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

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

11.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

12.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Buck, Glen

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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

Nin, Anais

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

16.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Bible

18.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

19.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

20.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

21.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell

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

Sarnoff, David

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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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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Bible

28.

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

29.

... 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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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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Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

34.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Harvey, Paul

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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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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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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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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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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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh