Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

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

Vauclain, Samuel

'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

The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

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

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.

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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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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It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

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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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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 is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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 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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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 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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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Nightingale, Earl

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

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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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Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von