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

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Leboeuf, Michael

I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Harvey, Paul

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

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Hill, Napoleon

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If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

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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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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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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Platen

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

Repound, Renee

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Lewis, C. S.

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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.