Motivational Quotes

Joy

May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.

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Best Quotes about Joy

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.

Sculley, John

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

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

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

10.

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

11.

The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Ninon de Lenclos

18.

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

Caddy, Eileen

19.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

21.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

22.

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

Lawrence, Harding

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.

Stukane, Eileen

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

Bible

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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.

29.

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

Graf, Steffi

30.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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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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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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

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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

40.

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

Biondi, Matt

41.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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.

46.

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

Graham, Katherine

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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

Nin, Anais

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

William Shakespeare

49.

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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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