Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Joy

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

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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

Michel de Montaigne

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

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

Graham, Katherine

11.

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Sarnoff, David

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

William Shakespeare

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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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

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May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

24.

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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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.

29.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

35.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Fox, Matthew

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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

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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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.