Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Joy

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Marden, Orison Swett

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

17.

Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

18.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

19.

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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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

21.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

22.

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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

Nin, Anais

30.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

31.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

32.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

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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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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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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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Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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

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Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

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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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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