Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Vauclain, Samuel

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Graf, Steffi

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

10.

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

11.

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

12.

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

Quarles, Francis

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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

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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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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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.

23.

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

24.

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

Socrates

25.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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

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

Harvey, Paul

28.

'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

29.

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

Anderson, Greg

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Carnegie, Dale

32.

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.

33.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

34.

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

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

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Biondi, Matt

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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

40.

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

Lawrence, Harding

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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

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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

45.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Gibbs, Joe

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