Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Reade, Charles

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

11.

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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Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

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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

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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

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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

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

Sarnoff, David

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

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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

34.

'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 biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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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The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von