Motivational Quotes

Joy

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Gibbs, Joe

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.

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

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

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Hill, Napoleon

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Bible

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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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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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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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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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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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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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For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.

Stukane, Eileen

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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 not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sarnoff, David

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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

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

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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