Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Ballard, M. Russell

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

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

Socrates

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Bach, Richard

10.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

12.

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

13.

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

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Lewis, C. S.

16.

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

17.

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

Caddy, Eileen

19.

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

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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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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

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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 runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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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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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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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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

32.

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

Bible

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.

Stukane, Eileen

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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