Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy runs deeper than despair

- Boom, Corrie Ten

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Hill, Napoleon

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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

Fox, Matthew

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

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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 joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Talmud, The

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Thomas Campbell

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Platen

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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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You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Vauclain, Samuel