Motivational Quotes

Joy

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

- Shinn, Florence Scovel

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Mother Teresa

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

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Bible

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

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

Aurelius, Marcus

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

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

Thackeray, William M.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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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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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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

24.

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

Bible

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

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

Gillies, Jerry

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Socrates

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

Platen

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gibbs, Joe

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Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

Mother Teresa

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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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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A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

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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.