Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

- Richard Wagner

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Sarnoff, David

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

Repound, Renee

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

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

Thomas Campbell

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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 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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Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Reade, Charles

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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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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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... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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.

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

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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