Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Graf, Steffi

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Marden, Orison Swett

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Fox, Matthew

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

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

Platen

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

Graf, Steffi

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Thomas Campbell

11.

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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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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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.

14.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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

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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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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gillies, Jerry

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

30.

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Rosten, Leo

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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.

34.

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

Socrates

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

37.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

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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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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

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

Sarnoff, David

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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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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