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

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Gillies, Jerry

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.

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

Reade, Charles

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

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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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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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'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Dickinson, Emily

29.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

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He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.

Blake, William

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

Sarnoff, David

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bible

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

Platen

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean