Motivational Quotes

Joy

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]

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Best Quotes about Joy

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

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

Mother Teresa

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Bach, Richard

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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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Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

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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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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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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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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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Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

28.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Chuang Tzu

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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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