Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Gillies, Jerry

Best Quotes about Joy

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Socrates

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Buddha

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Bible

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Graham, Katherine

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Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Michel de Montaigne

27.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Rosten, Leo

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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Gillies, Jerry

40.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

44.

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

Mother Teresa

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

Sarnoff, David

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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