Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell

11.

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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

13.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

15.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

16.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

Graham, Katherine

21.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

22.

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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

24.

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

Quarles, Francis

25.

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

26.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

27.

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

28.

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

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

Carnegie, Dale

30.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

31.

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

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.

I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Sarnoff, David

36.

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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

40.

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

Bible

41.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

42.

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

Platen

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

44.

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

45.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

46.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Repound, Renee

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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 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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh