Motivational Quotes

Joy

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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Best Quotes about Joy

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

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

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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 surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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

12.

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Marden, Orison Swett

13.

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

Mother Teresa

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

20.

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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

26.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Gibbs, Joe

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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

37.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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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 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 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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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.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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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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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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.