Motivational Quotes

Joy

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

- Sir Wilfred Grenfell

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Sarnoff, David

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

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

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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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 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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Graf, Steffi

19.

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

Graham, Katherine

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

21.

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

Repound, Renee

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Thomas Campbell

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

William Shakespeare

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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