Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Depew, Chauncey

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

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

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

Platen

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Anderson, Greg

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

10.

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

11.

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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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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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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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

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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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To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

18.

Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

Sarnoff, David

19.

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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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

Nin, Anais

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

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

Bradbury, Ray

31.

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

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

Thomas Campbell

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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

41.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

43.

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

Repound, Renee

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

Socrates

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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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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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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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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