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

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

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

Lawrence, Harding

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Bible

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

Repound, Renee

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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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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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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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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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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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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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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

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Rohn, Jim

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