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

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

Socrates

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

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

Caddy, Eileen

The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

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

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

Repound, Renee

10.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

11.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

12.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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 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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I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Nicklaus, Jack

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Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

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

20.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Hill, Napoleon

27.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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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

31.

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

32.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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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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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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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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 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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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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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.

42.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Platen

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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa