Motivational Quotes

Joy

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Ruskin, John

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

Talmud, The

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Repound, Renee

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

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bible

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

Vauclain, Samuel

10.

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

Sarnoff, David

11.

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

12.

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

Buck, Glen

13.

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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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

15.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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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

21.

I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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

27.

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

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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 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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

33.

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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Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Platen

35.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Reade, Charles

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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

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

Mother Teresa