Motivational Quotes

Joy

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Waitley, Denis

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.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

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 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

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

Vauclain, Samuel

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

12.

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

Biondi, Matt

13.

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

Bible

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

Hill, Napoleon

15.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

18.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

19.

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

Gillies, Jerry

20.

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

Hill, Napoleon

21.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

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.

23.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

25.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

26.

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

Graham, Katherine

27.

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

29.

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

Rohn, Jim

30.

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

31.

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

32.

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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People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

Gibbs, Joe

34.

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

35.

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

Harvey, Paul

39.

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

Homoka, Oscar

40.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

41.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

42.

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

Chuang Tzu

43.

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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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

45.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

46.

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

Lewis, C. S.

47.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

48.

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

Carnegie, Dale