Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

- Wagner, Richard

Best Quotes about Joy

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.

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Buck, Glen

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

Lewis, C. S.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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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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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Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Bible

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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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As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

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

Repound, Renee

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Platen

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Socrates

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Biondi, Matt