Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Hepburn, Katharine

Best Quotes about Joy

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

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

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

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

Fox, Matthew

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

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Hill, Napoleon

12.

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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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

15.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Sir Edward Dyer

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

Chuang Tzu

25.

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

Thomas Campbell

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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

28.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

33.

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Socrates

35.

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

Bible

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

37.

Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Harvey, Paul

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

40.

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

Buck, Glen

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

Bible

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

Gibbs, Joe

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Depew, Chauncey

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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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For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.

Stukane, Eileen

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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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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