Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Chuang Tzu

Best Quotes about 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

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

Lewis, C. S.

I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

Bible

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

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Michel de Montaigne

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The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

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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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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Socrates

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

32.

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

Bach, Richard

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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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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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

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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