Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Tourneur, Cyril

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Biondi, Matt

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Sarnoff, David

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

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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.

Judd, H. Stanley

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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

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You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.

Howe, Gordie

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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

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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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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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A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Homoka, Oscar

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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.

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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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My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

Wilder, Thornton

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When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?

Campolo, Tony

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Harvey, Paul

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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.