Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Socrates

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

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Earnhardt, Dale

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

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

11.

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

Carnegie, Dale

12.

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

13.

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

Hill, Napoleon

14.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

15.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

16.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

17.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

18.

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

19.

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

20.

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

21.

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

Mother Teresa

22.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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

24.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

25.

The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.

26.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

27.

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

Lawrence, Harding

28.

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

29.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Platen

32.

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

33.

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.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

35.

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

36.

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Sarnoff, David

42.

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

46.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

48.

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

Graham, Katherine

49.

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