Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Lewis, C. S.

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Lawrence, Harding

You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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.

11.

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

Chuang Tzu

12.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

15.

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

Mother Teresa

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

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Platen

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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Lewis, C. S.

40.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bible

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry