Motivational Quotes

Joy

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

- Macinness, Helen

Best Quotes about Joy

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Carnegie, Dale

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

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

Fox, Matthew

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

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

11.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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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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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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Anderson, Greg

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

Hepburn, Katharine

22.

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Platen

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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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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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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.

32.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bach, Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Socrates

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry