Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Buck, Glen

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Bible

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

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Bach, Richard

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

Sarnoff, David

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Chuang Tzu

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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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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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A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.

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'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Dickinson, Emily

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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 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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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Platen

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Confucius

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Socrates

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

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

Vauclain, Samuel