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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.

Stukane, Eileen

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 biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Carnegie, Dale

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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

Repound, Renee

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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

18.

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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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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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My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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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

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

Sarnoff, David

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Shaw, George Bernard

31.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

33.

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

Rosten, Leo

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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

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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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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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

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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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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

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Fox, Matthew

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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