Motivational Quotes

Joy

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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 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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Bach, Richard

I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

10.

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

11.

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

Biondi, Matt

12.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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.

14.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

15.

The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Michel de Montaigne

20.

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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... 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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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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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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Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

25.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

Bible

27.

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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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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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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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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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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

34.

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

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Harvey, Paul

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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.