Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Depew, Chauncey

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.

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

Hogan, Ben

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.

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Nightingale, Earl

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Homoka, Oscar

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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Liebman, Joshua Loth

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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

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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'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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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

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gibbs, Joe

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Leboeuf, Michael

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

Repound, Renee

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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

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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.