Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Bible

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

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

10.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

11.

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

Talmud, The

12.

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

Hogan, Ben

13.

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

Rohn, Jim

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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.

16.

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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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, 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

19.

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

20.

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

Mother Teresa

21.

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

22.

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

Lawrence, Harding

24.

I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

25.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

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

Thackeray, William M.

27.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Hepburn, Katharine

30.

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

Michel de Montaigne

31.

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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

33.

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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

35.

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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

37.

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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

40.

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! [Philippians 4:4]

Bible

41.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

42.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

43.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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

45.

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

Buddha

49.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques