Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Joy

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Barrie, Sir James 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

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

Biondi, Matt

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

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Ninon de Lenclos

11.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Socrates

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It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

Repound, Renee

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

33.

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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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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Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

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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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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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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

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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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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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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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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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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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To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar