Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Sarnoff, David

Best Quotes about Joy

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

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

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Bach, Richard

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

Browning, Robert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Bible

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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 always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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 joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Bible

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

Mother Teresa

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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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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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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