Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Repound, Renee

Best Quotes about Joy

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

A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

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

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

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

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

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

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Bradbury, Ray

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

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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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If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

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

Repound, Renee

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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 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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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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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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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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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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 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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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

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

Harvey, Paul

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'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Dickinson, Emily

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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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.