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

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell

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

Ruskin, John

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

Bible

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

William Shakespeare

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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 the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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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My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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

Thomas Campbell

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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Twain, Mark

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Biondi, Matt

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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 is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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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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.

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Hill, Napoleon

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