Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

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

Reade, Charles

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

May, Rollo

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

10.

Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.

Marcia, Wieder

11.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

12.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

13.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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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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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

20.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

21.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Carnegie, Dale

27.

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

28.

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

Lawrence, Harding

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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, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

31.

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

Socrates

32.

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

33.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Phil Jackson

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The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

37.

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

40.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Repound, Renee

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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Gibbs, Joe

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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

49.

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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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