Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Sir Wilfred Grenfell

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Repound, Renee

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

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

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

Sarnoff, David

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Hill, Napoleon

15.

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

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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

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

Carnegie, Dale

19.

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

Bradbury, Ray

24.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

25.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

26.

What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

Gillies, Jerry

27.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

Fox, Matthew

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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

31.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

36.

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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Lawrence, Harding

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Rohn, Jim

45.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Bible

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