Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

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

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

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

I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

Keyes Jr., Ken

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Lewis, C. S.

21.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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.

28.

The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.

29.

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

30.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

31.

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

32.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

34.

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Chuang Tzu

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

43.

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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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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