Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Michel de Montaigne

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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 get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Buddha

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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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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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Depew, Chauncey

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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

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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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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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

Mother Teresa

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Harvey, Paul

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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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Biondi, Matt

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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

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Bible

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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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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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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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 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