Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Repound, Renee

Best Quotes about Joy

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Gibbs, Joe

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Reade, Charles

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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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Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Harvey, Paul

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

23.

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Confucius

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

Depew, Chauncey

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

33.

I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

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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

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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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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

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

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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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 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

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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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The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.

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

Bach, Richard