Motivational Quotes

Joy

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

- Sir Wilfred Grenfell

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Graf, Steffi

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

Rosten, Leo

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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

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

Gibbs, Joe

17.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Bach, Richard

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

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What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Vauclain, Samuel

31.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Anderson, Greg

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Repound, Renee

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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

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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

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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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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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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

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Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

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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