Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bach, Richard

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

Socrates

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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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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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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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.

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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 more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

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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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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Graham, Katherine

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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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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

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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.

Repound, Renee

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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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

William Shakespeare

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Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.