Motivational Quotes

Joy

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

- Sikorski, Gerry

Best Quotes about Joy

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.

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

Repound, Renee

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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 only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Leboeuf, Michael

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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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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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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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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

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May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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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.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bible

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

William Shakespeare

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

Thackeray, William M.

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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 first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Twain, Mark