Motivational Quotes

Joy

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

- Lewis, C. S.

Best Quotes about Joy

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Socrates

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

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

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

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

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

Rosten, Leo

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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 joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Harvey, Paul

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Bible

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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Lawrence, Harding

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

William Shakespeare

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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Bible

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.

Howe, Gordie

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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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Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar