Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Leboeuf, Michael

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Mother Teresa

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

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

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

William Shakespeare

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.

Howe, Gordie

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

46.

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

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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'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

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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