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

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

Earnhardt, Dale

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Homoka, Oscar

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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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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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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'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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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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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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I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

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A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.

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

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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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.

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hill, Napoleon

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