Motivational Quotes

Joy

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

- Jerry Van Amerongen

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Sarnoff, David

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Ninon de Lenclos

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Twain, Mark

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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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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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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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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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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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

20.

I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

21.

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Biondi, Matt

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If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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.

28.

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

Chuang Tzu

29.

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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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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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 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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

35.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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

39.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

49.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.