Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bradbury, Ray

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

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

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

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.

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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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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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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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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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 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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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

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Fox, Matthew

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Lawrence, Harding

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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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No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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