Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

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

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

10.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

11.

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

Rohn, Jim

12.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Bible

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

Waitley, Denis

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Platen

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

33.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

34.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

35.

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

36.

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

Harvey, Paul

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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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

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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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Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Phil Jackson

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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

48.

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

Bible

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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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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