Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Fox, Matthew

Best Quotes about Joy

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

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

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

Ninon de Lenclos

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Michel de Montaigne

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We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.

Repound, Renee

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Graf, Steffi

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

Leboeuf, Michael

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Platen

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Homoka, Oscar

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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

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

Thomas Campbell