Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Michel de Montaigne

The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

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

Graf, Steffi

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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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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Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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.

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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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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

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

Platen

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

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

William Shakespeare

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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 joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

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

Socrates

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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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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The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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