Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Repound, Renee

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Rosten, Leo

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

Bible

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sarnoff, David

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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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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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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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He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.

Blake, William

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The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Bach, Richard

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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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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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! [Philippians 4:4]

Bible

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

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

30.

For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.

Stukane, Eileen

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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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Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Michel de Montaigne

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'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

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Gillies, Jerry

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides