Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

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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

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

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

Anderson, Greg

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

Buck, Glen

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

Caddy, Eileen

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

11.

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

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Bible

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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

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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

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

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

Chuang Tzu

28.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Sarnoff, David

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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

37.

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Buddha

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ruskin, John

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis