Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Bradbury, Ray

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

'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

10.

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

11.

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

Chuang Tzu

12.

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

Waitley, Denis

13.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.

Howe, Gordie

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Bible

19.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

20.

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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

24.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

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

Thackeray, William M.

26.

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

Graham, Katherine

27.

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

Sarnoff, David

28.

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

Lawrence, Harding

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

31.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

32.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

33.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

34.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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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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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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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.

39.

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

40.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

41.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Repound, Renee

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

Rosten, Leo

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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.