Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

- Richard Wagner

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Harvey, Paul

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.

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

Reade, Charles

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

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

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

Lawrence, Harding

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Platen

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

Repound, Renee

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Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

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

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Socrates

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Thomas Campbell

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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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May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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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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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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 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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Carnegie, Dale

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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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

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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