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

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Bach, Richard

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

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

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

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

Rosten, Leo

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

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

Michel de Montaigne

11.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Platen

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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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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 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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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Dickinson, Emily

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

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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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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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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