Motivational Quotes

Joy

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.

Best Quotes about Joy

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Fox, Matthew

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

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

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Harvey, Paul

10.

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

11.

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

12.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

18.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

19.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! [Philippians 4:4]

Bible

25.

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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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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.

29.

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

Depew, Chauncey

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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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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

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

Rosten, Leo

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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

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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.

36.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Sarnoff, David

38.

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

39.

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

40.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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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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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Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Platen

45.

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

Socrates

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... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach