Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Michel de Montaigne

Best Quotes about Joy

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

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

Harvey, Paul

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

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

Ruskin, John

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.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

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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

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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.

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

18.

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

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May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Bach, Richard

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

Bible

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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 joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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

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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Rohn, Jim

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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Quarles, Francis

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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

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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