Motivational Quotes

Joy

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

- Blair, Hugh

Best Quotes about 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

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Harvey, Paul

10.

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

12.

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

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Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Phil Jackson

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Socrates

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

Lawrence, Harding

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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

28.

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

29.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

32.

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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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

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

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Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Platen

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

Fox, Matthew

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

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Bach, 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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Thomas Campbell

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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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