Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Sarnoff, David

Best Quotes about Joy

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Caddy, Eileen

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.

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

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

Buddha

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

10.

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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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

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

Repound, Renee

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

Ruskin, John

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

Wilder, Thornton

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Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.

Judd, H. Stanley

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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

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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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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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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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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

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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

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Socrates

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

Gibbs, Joe

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Bach, Richard

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

Fox, Matthew

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Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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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

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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

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

48.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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