Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Harvey, Paul

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

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

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

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

Buddha

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Ninon de Lenclos

12.

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

Bible

13.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

20.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Gibbs, Joe

25.

I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

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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 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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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

29.

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

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

Bradbury, Ray

39.

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.

40.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Bach, Richard

43.

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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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Caddy, Eileen

48.

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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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen