Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Platen

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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 set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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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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

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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

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

Bible

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

Repound, Renee

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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... 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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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.

Browning, Robert

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.

Socrates

37.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

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There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

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

49.

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

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

Bach, Richard