Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

Rosten, Leo

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

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

Fox, Matthew

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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

Tourneur, Cyril

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Graham, Katherine

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

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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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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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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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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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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.