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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Harvey, Paul

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

Browning, Robert

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

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

Repound, Renee

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

Sarnoff, David

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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

Nin, Anais

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gibbs, Joe

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The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

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It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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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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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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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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

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

Bach, Richard

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Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

William Shakespeare

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Hill, Napoleon

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