Motivational Quotes

Joy

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

- Sikorski, Gerry

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

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

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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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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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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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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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Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Rosten, Leo

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Graf, Steffi

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Bach, Richard

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

Anderson, Greg

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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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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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Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

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The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

34.

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

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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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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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As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

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

Hill, Napoleon

44.

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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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