Motivational Quotes

Joy

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Rohn, Jim

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.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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.

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

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

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

Buck, Glen

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

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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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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Repound, Renee

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When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?

Campolo, Tony

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

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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

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

Bach, Richard

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

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