Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Biondi, Matt

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

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

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

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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Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Harvey, Paul

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Twain, Mark

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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

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Repound, Renee

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Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

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

Bradbury, Ray

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He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.

Blake, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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

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My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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

Reade, Charles

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

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

Anderson, Greg

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If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.