Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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 enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Hepburn, Katharine

... 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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

11.

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

12.

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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Richards, Mary Caroline

21.

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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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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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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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

25.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

28.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

30.

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Rosten, Leo

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Repound, Renee

37.

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

Biondi, Matt

38.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

39.

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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

46.

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

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