Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Bible

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

Homoka, Oscar

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Socrates

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

10.

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

11.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

12.

The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

13.

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'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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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

16.

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

Graf, Steffi

17.

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

18.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

19.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

20.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

22.

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

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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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I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

25.

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

26.

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

Rosten, Leo

27.

Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.

Marcia, Wieder

28.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

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

Lewis, C. S.

30.

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

Platen

32.

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.

33.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

34.

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

Ruskin, John

35.

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

36.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

38.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

40.

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

41.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Hogan, Ben

44.

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

Depew, Chauncey

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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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The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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

49.

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

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

Biondi, Matt