Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

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

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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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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

16.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

17.

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

Lawrence, Harding

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

21.

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

Lewis, C. S.

22.

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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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 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

25.

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.

26.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Hill, Napoleon

28.

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

Carnegie, Dale

29.

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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

31.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

32.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.

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

Mother Teresa

34.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

38.

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

39.

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

40.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

43.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

44.

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

45.

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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Buddha

48.

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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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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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