Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Biondi, Matt

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

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Carnegie, Dale

11.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bible

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

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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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.

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Sarnoff, David

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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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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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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There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

Bible

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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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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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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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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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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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Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.

Socrates

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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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'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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Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

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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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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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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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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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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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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