Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

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

William Shakespeare

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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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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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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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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

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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

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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.

21.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

24.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Harvey, Paul

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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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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Phil Jackson

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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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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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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