Motivational Quotes

Joy

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

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

Bible

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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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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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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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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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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Rohn, Jim

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

William Shakespeare

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When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?

Campolo, Tony

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Rosten, Leo

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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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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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.