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

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

Bible

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

Lawrence, Harding

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.

Blake, William

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

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

13.

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

Mother Teresa

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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

16.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

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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.

18.

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

19.

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

Thackeray, William M.

20.

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

Fox, Matthew

21.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

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May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.

23.

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

24.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

25.

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

26.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

27.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

28.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

29.

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

Depew, Chauncey

30.

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

Carnegie, Dale

31.

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

32.

A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

33.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

35.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

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

Platen

40.

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

Rosten, Leo

41.

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

42.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Judd, H. Stanley

44.

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

45.

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

46.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

48.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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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