Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Fox, Matthew

Best Quotes about Joy

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Graf, Steffi

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

Shaw, George Bernard

12.

I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Platen

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Phil Jackson

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Bible

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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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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The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Leboeuf, Michael

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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Repound, Renee

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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