Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sarnoff, David

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?

Campolo, Tony

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

Bible

10.

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

Buddha

11.

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

Lawrence, Harding

12.

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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

15.

The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

16.

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

17.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

18.

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

19.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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

Rohn, Jim

21.

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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

23.

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

24.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

25.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

26.

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

32.

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Marden, Orison Swett

33.

He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.

Blake, William

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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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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

36.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

Gibbs, Joe

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

45.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides