Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

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

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Platen

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Hogan, Ben

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.

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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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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

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

Bach, Richard

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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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]

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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

45.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

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