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

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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

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

10.

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

11.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

12.

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

13.

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

14.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

15.

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

16.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Reade, Charles

24.

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

Hogan, Ben

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Carnegie, Dale

28.

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

33.

Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

34.

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

Bible

35.

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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

38.

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

Mother Teresa

40.

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

Thomas Campbell

41.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

42.

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

43.

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

Repound, Renee

44.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katharine

45.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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