Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

- Richard Wagner

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.

Marcia, Wieder

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

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

11.

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

Rosten, Leo

12.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

13.

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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

16.

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

Bradbury, Ray

17.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

18.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

19.

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

20.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

21.

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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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

24.

We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.

Repound, Renee

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Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Platen

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

Bible

27.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

28.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

29.

Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

30.

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

31.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

32.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

33.

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

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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

35.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

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

Sarnoff, David

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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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Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Thackeray, William M.