Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

- Colgrove, Dr. Melba

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Reade, Charles

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

11.

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

Fox, Matthew

14.

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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The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

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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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Biondi, Matt

22.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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

25.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

26.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

27.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

29.

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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

31.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

32.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.

Howe, Gordie

33.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

40.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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

43.

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

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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 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.