Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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 New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Socrates

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

Gillies, Jerry

11.

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

12.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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 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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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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

19.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

28.

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

29.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

30.

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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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

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

Sarnoff, David

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You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Thackeray, William M.

35.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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

37.

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

38.

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Bible

43.

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

Lawrence, Harding

44.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Platen

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