Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Repound, Renee

Best Quotes about Joy

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

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

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

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Carnegie, Dale

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

10.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

11.

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

Fox, Matthew

12.

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

13.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

14.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

15.

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.

16.

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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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

18.

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

19.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

20.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

22.

... 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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

24.

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

25.

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

Socrates

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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

27.

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

28.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

29.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

31.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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

33.

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

34.

Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

35.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

36.

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Sarnoff, David

38.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

39.

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

Rohn, Jim

40.

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

Graham, Katherine

41.

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

Gibbs, Joe

42.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

43.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

44.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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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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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

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

Repound, Renee

49.

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

Depew, Chauncey