Motivational Quotes

Joy

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Repound, Renee

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

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

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

Reade, Charles

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

Platen

A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

William Shakespeare

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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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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

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

Gibbs, Joe

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With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Confucius

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques