Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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

10.

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

11.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

13.

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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

15.

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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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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

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

Carnegie, Dale

20.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

21.

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

25.

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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

27.

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

Buddha

28.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

29.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

30.

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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

32.

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

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Rohn, Jim

36.

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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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.

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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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For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.

Stukane, Eileen

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May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

42.

'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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

47.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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