Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Lawrence, Harding

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

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

Ninon de Lenclos

Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.

Socrates

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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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

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

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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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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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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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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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It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

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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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Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

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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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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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You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.

Howe, Gordie

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A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Harvey, Paul

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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

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