Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Michel de Montaigne

Best Quotes about Joy

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

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.

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Gibbs, Joe

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Harvey, Paul

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

10.

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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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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.

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

Sarnoff, David

16.

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Platen

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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

24.

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

25.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

27.

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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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 yourself -- it's later than you think.

Socrates

33.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

William Shakespeare

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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

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The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Blotnick, Srully

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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 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

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides