Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

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

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

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May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.

20.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

22.

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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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Harvey, Paul

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Hogan, Ben

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

35.

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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

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I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Graham, Katherine

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

43.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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

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

Bible

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

Platen

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