Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Sarnoff, David

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

'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

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

10.

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Repound, Renee

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

17.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.

34.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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

37.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Bach, Richard

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

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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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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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

46.

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

Graf, Steffi

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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Marden, Orison Swett