Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Thomas Campbell

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

Sarnoff, David

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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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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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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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My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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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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People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

Gibbs, Joe

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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 yourself -- it's later than you think.

Socrates

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Depew, Chauncey