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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

2.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

3.

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

Chuang Tzu

6.

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

7.

Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.

Marcia, Wieder

8.

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

Lawrence, Harding

9.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

11.

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

Bradbury, Ray

12.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

13.

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

14.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

15.

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

Sarnoff, David

16.

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! [Philippians 4:4]

Bible

17.

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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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

19.

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

20.

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

Talmud, The

21.

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

Reade, Charles

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

27.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

28.

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

Buck, Glen

29.

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

Fox, Matthew

30.

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

Gibbs, Joe

31.

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

Socrates

32.

If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

33.

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

34.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

35.

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

Repound, Renee

36.

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

37.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

38.

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

39.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

43.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

44.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

45.

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

Graham, Katherine

46.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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.

49.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

50.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen