Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

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Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Bible

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

Lawrence, Harding

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Harvey, Paul

The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

12.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bible

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

Sarnoff, David

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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.

19.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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

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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

22.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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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I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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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... 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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

30.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

31.

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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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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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

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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

40.

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

Socrates

41.

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Phil Jackson

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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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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Michel de Montaigne

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Thackeray, William M.