Motivational Quotes

Joy

'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

Best Quotes about Joy

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Buddha

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

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

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

Gibbs, Joe

13.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

19.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

20.

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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

24.

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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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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

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Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

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

William Shakespeare

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Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

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

Earnhardt, Dale

33.

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

Socrates

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

Hogan, Ben

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I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

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

Fox, Matthew

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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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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

41.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

43.

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

Bach, Richard

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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 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.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner