Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Anderson, Greg

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Repound, Renee

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.

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

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

Buck, Glen

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

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

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Platen

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

William Shakespeare

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Bach, Richard

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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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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

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

Lewis, C. S.

29.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

30.

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

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

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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.

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Judd, H. Stanley

39.

'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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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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 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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As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

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