Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Graham, Katherine

Best Quotes about Joy

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

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

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

Earnhardt, Dale

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Dickinson, Emily

10.

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

Mother Teresa

11.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lawrence, Harding

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If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

18.

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.

19.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

20.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

23.

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

Sir Edward Dyer

24.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katharine

25.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

31.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Harvey, Paul

38.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

Mother Teresa

40.

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

Fox, Matthew

43.

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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

49.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

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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