Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Michel de Montaigne

Best Quotes about Joy

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Talmud, The

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

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

10.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Thackeray, William M.

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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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

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

Biondi, Matt

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

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Socrates

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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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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.

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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.

41.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Kierkegaard, S°ren