Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Lawrence, Harding

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Sarnoff, David

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.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Leboeuf, Michael

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

Buck, Glen

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

Socrates

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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 only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Bible

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

Platen

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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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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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Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.

Blake, William

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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