Motivational Quotes

Joy

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

- Sikorski, Gerry

Best Quotes about Joy

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell

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

Lawrence, Harding

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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 sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

Bible

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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

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

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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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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

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