Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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.

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 enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lawrence, Harding

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

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

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.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Platen

18.

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

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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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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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

28.

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

29.

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

30.

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

Repound, Renee

31.

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

Biondi, Matt

32.

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

33.

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

Buck, Glen

34.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

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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

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

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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

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.

43.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Shaw, George Bernard

49.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.