Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Graf, Steffi

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Anderson, Greg

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

Bible

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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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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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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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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

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If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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.

19.

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Lawrence, Harding

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It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

William Shakespeare

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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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A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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

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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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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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No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Platen

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

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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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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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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

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon