Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Lawrence, Harding

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

Quarles, Francis

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

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

10.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

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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

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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.

Sculley, John

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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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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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

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

Michel de Montaigne

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You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Earnhardt, Dale

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

41.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

46.

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

Depew, Chauncey

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell