Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

Mother Teresa

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! [Philippians 4:4]

Bible

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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.

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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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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

21.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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

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

Reade, Charles

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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

28.

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

Fox, Matthew

29.

Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

Browning, Robert

30.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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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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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Graham, Katherine

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If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

39.

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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... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Sarnoff, David

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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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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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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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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