Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Ruskin, John

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

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

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

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

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

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

10.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

11.

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

12.

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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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

15.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Judd, H. Stanley

18.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

20.

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

21.

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

Rosten, Leo

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

23.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Repound, Renee

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

Socrates

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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

32.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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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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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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The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.

36.

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

Gillies, Jerry

38.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

40.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

41.

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

Thackeray, William M.

43.

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

44.

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

Lawrence, Harding

45.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Aurelius, Marcus