Motivational Quotes

Joy

He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Hogan, Ben

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

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

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

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

Rosten, Leo

Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.

Marcia, Wieder

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

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Bible

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

11.

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Waitley, Denis

17.

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Thackeray, William M.

33.

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

Lewis, C. S.

34.

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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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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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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bible

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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