Motivational Quotes

Joy

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.

Best Quotes about Joy

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Homoka, Oscar

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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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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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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Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

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We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.

Repound, Renee

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

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

30.

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

Graham, Katherine

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The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.

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

Socrates

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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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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

Nin, Anais

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Harvey, Paul