Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

Bible

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

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

10.

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

11.

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

12.

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

13.

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

Repound, Renee

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

Caddy, Eileen

17.

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Chuang Tzu

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

33.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

36.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

41.

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

Graham, Katherine

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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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Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

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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.

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Hill, Napoleon