Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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.

'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

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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.

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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

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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

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

Depew, Chauncey

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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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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Socrates

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Gibbs, Joe

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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Thomas Campbell

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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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

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

Bach, Richard

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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