Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

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Best Quotes about Joy

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

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.

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

Mother Teresa

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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.

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Thomas Campbell

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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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Rohn, Jim

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You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Earnhardt, Dale

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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

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

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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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Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.

Socrates

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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Anderson, Greg

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Sarnoff, David

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Chuang Tzu

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Repound, Renee

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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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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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If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

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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