Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

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

Platen

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.

Liebman, Joshua Loth

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

Bradbury, Ray

10.

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

11.

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

Graf, Steffi

12.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

13.

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

Michel de Montaigne

16.

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

Hogan, Ben

17.

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

Quarles, Francis

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

21.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

22.

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

Hill, Napoleon

24.

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

25.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

William Shakespeare

28.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

30.

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

31.

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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We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Nightingale, Earl

33.

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

Rosten, Leo

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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

35.

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.

36.

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

Ruskin, John

37.

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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

39.

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

Biondi, Matt

40.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

May, Rollo

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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]

Bible

42.

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

Sarnoff, David

43.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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