Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Sir Edward Dyer

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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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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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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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'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

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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bible

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

Lawrence, Harding

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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

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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

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

40.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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