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

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Buck, Glen

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

Mother Teresa

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

Thomas Campbell

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

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

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

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

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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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

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People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.

Sculley, John

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

William Shakespeare

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

18.

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

Repound, Renee

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Harvey, Paul

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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.

30.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bach, Richard

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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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

43.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Talmud, The

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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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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

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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 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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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

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

Fox, Matthew