Motivational Quotes

Joy

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.

Best Quotes about Joy

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

Wilder, Thornton

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

14.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

Platen

16.

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

17.

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

Repound, Renee

18.

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

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.

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

21.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

22.

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

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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

24.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

25.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

27.

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.

28.

You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Earnhardt, Dale

29.

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

30.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

31.

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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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

33.

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

Caddy, Eileen

34.

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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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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You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Vauclain, Samuel

38.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

39.

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

Thomas Campbell

40.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

41.

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

Hogan, Ben

42.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

43.

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

Harvey, Paul

44.

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

Bradbury, Ray

45.

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

Sarnoff, David

47.

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.

48.

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

Lawrence, Harding

49.

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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Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa