Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joys divided are increased.

- Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Best Quotes about Joy

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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

Platen

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Harvey, Paul

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

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

Vauclain, Samuel

10.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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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The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

25.

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

Repound, Renee

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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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The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Bach, Richard

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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 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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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.

39.

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Graham, Katherine

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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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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

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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'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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You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Hill, Napoleon