Motivational Quotes

Joy

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

- Stanislaw J. Lec

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Ruskin, John

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

Carnegie, Dale

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

10.

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

Bach, Richard

11.

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

12.

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

William Shakespeare

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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 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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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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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Biondi, Matt

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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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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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

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

34.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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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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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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It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Bible

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

Gillies, Jerry

41.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Socrates

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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.

Howe, Gordie

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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

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