Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Lawrence, Harding

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Ruskin, John

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

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

Bible

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

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

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Bible

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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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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

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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Quarles, Francis

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hogan, Ben

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Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.