Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Platen

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

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

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

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

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

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

Fox, Matthew

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Gibbs, Joe

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There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

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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 not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Sarnoff, David

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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Repound, Renee

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

Bible

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese