Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Thomas Campbell

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.

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Marden, Orison Swett

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Buddha

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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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

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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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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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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.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

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

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