Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

'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

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

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

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

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

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

Fox, Matthew

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Hill, Napoleon

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

12.

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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

14.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

15.

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

20.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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 only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Socrates

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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 enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

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

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The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

33.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Caddy, Eileen

36.

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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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.

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Bach, Richard

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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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... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

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May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.