Motivational Quotes

Joy

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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Depew, Chauncey

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

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

Buck, Glen

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

Sarnoff, David

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Ruskin, John

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Reade, Charles

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

10.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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.

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Blotnick, Srully

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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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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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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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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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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.

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

Fox, Matthew

29.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

31.

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Phil Jackson

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Bible

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

Bible

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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

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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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Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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