Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

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

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

10.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

12.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

13.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

14.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

15.

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

Fox, Matthew

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

19.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

20.

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

21.

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

22.

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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

24.

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.

25.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

26.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

27.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

28.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

29.

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

Anderson, Greg

30.

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.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

32.

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

33.

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

34.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Gillies, Jerry

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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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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

39.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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

Homoka, Oscar

41.

Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

44.

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

48.

I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

49.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Depew, Chauncey