Motivational Quotes

Joy

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

- Barrie, Sir James M.

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Rosten, Leo

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Judd, H. Stanley

25.

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

30.

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

Bible

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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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Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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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

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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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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

41.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Anderson, Greg

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

Mother Teresa

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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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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