Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Gillies, Jerry

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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.

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

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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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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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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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Bible

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

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

Repound, Renee

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

Platen

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

Lawrence, Harding

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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

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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

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aurelius, Marcus