Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

Repound, Renee

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

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

Bible

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

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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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Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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

29.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.

Socrates

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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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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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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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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.