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

Bradbury, Ray

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

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

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

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

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

Socrates

10.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

11.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

13.

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

14.

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?

Campolo, Tony

15.

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

Michel de Montaigne

17.

What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

Gillies, Jerry

18.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.

Sculley, John

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

Marden, Orison Swett

26.

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

Bible

27.

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 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

29.

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

30.

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

Mother Teresa

31.

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

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.

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.

34.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Platen

36.

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

Bible

37.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

38.

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

Homoka, Oscar

39.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

40.

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

41.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Ninon de Lenclos

43.

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.

44.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

48.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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.