Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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.

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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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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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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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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

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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

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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.

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

Browning, Robert

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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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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 have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

Bible

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You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.

Howe, Gordie

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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Bible

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

Waitley, Denis

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert