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

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Quarles, Francis

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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.

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

Gillies, Jerry

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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

12.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Repound, Renee

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

21.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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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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As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

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Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Phil Jackson

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

Thackeray, William M.

31.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Platen

34.

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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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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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

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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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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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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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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

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

Bible

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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.

43.

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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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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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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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba