Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

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

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Reade, Charles

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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

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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Gillies, Jerry

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The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.

Liebman, Joshua Loth

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There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

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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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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There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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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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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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The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

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

Lawrence, Harding

33.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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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Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Platen

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

50.

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