Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Rosten, Leo

Best Quotes about Joy

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Buck, Glen

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.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

11.

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

Harvey, Paul

12.

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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 feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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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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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.

22.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

25.

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

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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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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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The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

Schwab, Charles M.

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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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

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The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

William Shakespeare

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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bible

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

49.

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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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