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

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Tourneur, Cyril

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

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

Lewis, C. S.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

10.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

11.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

12.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Talmud, The

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

Sarnoff, David

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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

18.

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

Sir Edward Dyer

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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

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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

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Socrates

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Homoka, Oscar

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

Mother Teresa

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

William Shakespeare

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Twain, Mark

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Hepburn, Katharine

45.

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

48.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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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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