Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

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

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

Fox, Matthew

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Stukane, Eileen

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

10.

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

Thomas Campbell

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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

12.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

15.

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

Sarnoff, David

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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 is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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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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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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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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

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

24.

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Caddy, Eileen

30.

'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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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 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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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

38.

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

Depew, Chauncey

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.