Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Platen

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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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The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

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

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Chuang Tzu

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

Bradbury, Ray

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To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.