Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Sarnoff, David

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Bible

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.

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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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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

12.

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

24.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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 joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

30.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

31.

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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The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Bach, Richard

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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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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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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

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

Platen

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

Repound, Renee

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

Talmud, The

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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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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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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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