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

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

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

A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Repound, Renee

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

11.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Bach, Richard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.

Judd, H. Stanley

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I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

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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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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

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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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The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Graham, Katherine

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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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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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Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

Fox, Matthew

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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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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