Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

Bible

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

Bible

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Leboeuf, Michael

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

11.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

12.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

May, Rollo

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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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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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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

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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.

28.

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Repound, Renee

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Biondi, Matt

39.

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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You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Bach, Richard

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The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.

Liebman, Joshua Loth

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese