Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

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.

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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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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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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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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 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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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Caddy, Eileen

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Thomas Campbell

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Socrates

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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

28.

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

34.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Bible

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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.

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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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It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Rosten, Leo

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Platen

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Repound, Renee

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael