Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Vauclain, Samuel

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Marden, Orison Swett

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

11.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Gibbs, Joe

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Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

Lawrence, Harding

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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 joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

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Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Platen

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Bible

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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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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Nicklaus, Jack

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.

Stukane, Eileen

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My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Repound, Renee

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Carnegie, Dale

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With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Confucius

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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