Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Harvey, Paul

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Waitley, Denis

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

10.

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

12.

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

13.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

14.

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.

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

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

Homoka, Oscar

18.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

19.

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

20.

'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

21.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

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

23.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

24.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

25.

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 New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

27.

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

Caddy, Eileen

28.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

31.

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

Fox, Matthew

32.

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

33.

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

Gillies, Jerry

34.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

35.

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

Carnegie, Dale

36.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

37.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

38.

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

Thomas Campbell

39.

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

40.

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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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

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

Reade, Charles

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Rosten, Leo

46.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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