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.

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Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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.

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

Gibbs, Joe

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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

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

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

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If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Bach, Richard

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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.

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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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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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Thomas Campbell

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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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Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Harvey, Paul

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

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The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Talmud, The