Motivational Quotes

Joy

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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Anderson, Greg

Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Harvey, Paul

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

Bach, Richard

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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

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

Bible

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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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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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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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

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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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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Socrates

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! [Philippians 4:4]

Bible

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.

Repound, Renee

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

Hubbard, Elbert