Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Best Quotes about Joy

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Marden, Orison Swett

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

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

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.

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

Waitley, Denis

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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 not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

Gillies, Jerry

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Ruskin, John

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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall