Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Chuang Tzu

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

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

11.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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

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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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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

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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Buddha

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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

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

Biondi, Matt

22.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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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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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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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.

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

Platen

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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Fox, Matthew

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

William Shakespeare