Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Carnegie, Dale

12.

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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Sarnoff, David

15.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

16.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

19.

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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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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Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

23.

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

Bach, Richard

24.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

25.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

May, Rollo

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... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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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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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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'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

32.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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

34.

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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

41.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

42.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

44.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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

46.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

49.

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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Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis