Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Aurelius, Marcus

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

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

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

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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.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Harvey, Paul

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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bach, Richard

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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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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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 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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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

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

Repound, Renee

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Buck, Glen

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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Hill, Napoleon

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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

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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

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

Platen

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen