Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Lawrence, Harding

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

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

Bible

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The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Thomas Campbell

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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

24.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Graf, Steffi

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Tourneur, Cyril

33.

A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

34.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas