Motivational Quotes

Joy

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

- Leboeuf, Michael

Best Quotes about Joy

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Platen

'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Dickinson, Emily

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

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Repound, Renee

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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Michel de Montaigne

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May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bible

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

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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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

39.

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Fox, Matthew

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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