Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

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

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

14.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Biondi, Matt

17.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

18.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

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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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'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Dickinson, Emily

24.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.

Repound, Renee

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

Michel de Montaigne

28.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Bible

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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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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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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

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I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

40.

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

Socrates

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

Graham, Katherine

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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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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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To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.