Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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.

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

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

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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

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.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Sarnoff, David

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

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

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Depew, Chauncey

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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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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

Nin, Anais

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

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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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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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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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

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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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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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Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Nicklaus, Jack

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Socrates

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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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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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I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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