Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Twain, Mark

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

11.

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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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

14.

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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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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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

19.

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

21.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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 is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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

Gibbs, Joe

34.

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

Graham, Katherine

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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

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

Harvey, Paul

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Thomas Campbell

44.

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

Bible

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My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

Wilder, Thornton

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Repound, Renee

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.

Sculley, John

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

Earnhardt, Dale