Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Joy

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

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

Graf, Steffi

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

Rohn, Jim

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

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

Fox, Matthew

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.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

11.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

12.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

13.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Socrates

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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.

26.

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

Hogan, Ben

27.

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

30.

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

Carnegie, Dale

31.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

32.

If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

33.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

34.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Graham, Katherine

38.

'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

39.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

Nin, Anais

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

Harvey, Paul

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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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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

45.

Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.

Marcia, Wieder

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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel