Motivational Quotes

Joy

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Vauclain, Samuel

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Chuang Tzu

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Socrates

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

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I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

Bible

11.

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

Fox, Matthew

12.

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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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

14.

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

15.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Nicklaus, Jack

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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 set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Waitley, Denis

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Rohn, Jim

32.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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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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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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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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

43.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Joys divided are increased.