Motivational Quotes

Joy

People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

- Gibbs, Joe

Best Quotes about Joy

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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

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

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bach, Richard

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There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

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I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

Bible

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Rosten, Leo

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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