Motivational Quotes

Joy

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Platen

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

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Ninon de Lenclos

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

Bible

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

Biondi, Matt

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

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

William Shakespeare

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A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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

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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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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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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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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Buck, Glen

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Sarnoff, David

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With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Confucius