Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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

11.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Rohn, Jim

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Repound, Renee

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Bible

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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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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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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 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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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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 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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The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.

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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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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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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