Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Bach, Richard

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

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

10.

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

Buck, Glen

11.

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

Ruskin, John

12.

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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

14.

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

15.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Phil Jackson

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Lewis, C. S.

27.

'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

28.

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

William Shakespeare

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If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Bradbury, Ray

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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 subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Tourneur, Cyril

33.

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

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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Socrates

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

Buddha

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

Bible

44.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

46.

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

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

Lawrence, Harding