Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

'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

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

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Platen

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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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The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

27.

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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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Hepburn, Katharine

33.

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Bradbury, Ray