Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Bradbury, Ray

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Buck, Glen

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

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

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

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

Platen

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Harvey, Paul

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Waitley, Denis

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There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bach, Richard

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

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

Repound, Renee

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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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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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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

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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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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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]

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