Motivational Quotes

Joy

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Joy

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

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

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

Chuang Tzu

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

Leboeuf, Michael

10.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

11.

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

Michel de Montaigne

12.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Twain, Mark

13.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

14.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

15.

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

Sarnoff, David

17.

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

18.

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

Homoka, Oscar

19.

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

Carnegie, Dale

20.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

21.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

22.

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

Talmud, The

24.

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

Lawrence, Harding

25.

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

Thomas Campbell

26.

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

Anderson, Greg

27.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

28.

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

Bach, Richard

29.

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

Gillies, Jerry

30.

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

31.

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

Buck, Glen

32.

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

33.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

34.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Waitley, Denis

38.

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

39.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

41.

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

42.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

43.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

44.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Bradbury, Ray

48.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

49.

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