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

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

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

May, Rollo

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

Carnegie, Dale

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

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

Bach, Richard

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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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The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.

Liebman, Joshua Loth

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When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?

Campolo, Tony

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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 feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Repound, Renee

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

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