Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Depew, Chauncey

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Hogan, Ben

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Hill, Napoleon

I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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

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

Repound, Renee

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

Quarles, Francis

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

William Shakespeare

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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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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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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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

26.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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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'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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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 more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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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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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