Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

'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

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

15.

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

Socrates

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Confucius

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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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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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Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

Mother Teresa

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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 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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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Earnhardt, Dale

28.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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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

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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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

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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

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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.

40.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

42.

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

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lawrence, Harding

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