Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Gibbs, Joe

Best Quotes about Joy

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Harvey, Paul

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

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Repound, Renee

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

Mother Teresa

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There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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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

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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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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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The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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

Fox, Matthew

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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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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

27.

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

Graham, Katherine

28.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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

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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Thomas Campbell

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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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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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

Bible

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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.

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

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne