Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy, has no cost.

- Williamson, Marianne

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Bible

Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Platen

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

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

Schwab, Charles M.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

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

10.

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

12.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

15.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

18.

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

Caddy, Eileen

19.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

21.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

22.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

23.

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

Carnegie, Dale

24.

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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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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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

27.

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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The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

29.

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

Lawrence, Harding

30.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

31.

I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

Bible

32.

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

Biondi, Matt

34.

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

Bach, Richard

35.

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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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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We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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

40.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.

Marcia, Wieder

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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

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

Repound, Renee

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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