Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Rosten, Leo

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.

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

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

10.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

11.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

12.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Bach, Richard

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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.

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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

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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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

20.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

21.

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Blotnick, Srully

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

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.

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

Bradbury, Ray

25.

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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

28.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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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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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

34.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

35.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Hill, Napoleon

40.

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

41.

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

Gillies, Jerry

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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

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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.

Schwab, Charles M.

49.

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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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain