Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

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

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Tourneur, Cyril

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

26.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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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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

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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.

31.

'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

32.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

34.

Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.

Socrates

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

Mother Teresa

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I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Harvey, Paul