Motivational Quotes

Joy

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Confucius

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

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

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Ruskin, John

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Bible

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

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

Harvey, Paul

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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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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.

Judd, H. Stanley

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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.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Graham, Katherine

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Mother Teresa

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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Sarnoff, David

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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