Motivational Quotes

Joy

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Joy

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

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

Bible

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

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Michel de Montaigne

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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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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

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Thackeray, William M.

18.

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

21.

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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thomas Campbell

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

28.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

William Shakespeare

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Gillies, Jerry

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Rosten, Leo

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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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