Quotes about joy

"... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it."

Anderson, Greg on joy
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"Where a man can live, he can also live well."

Aurelius, Marcus on joy   

"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it."

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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 on joy   

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

Biondi, Matt on joy
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"Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man."

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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 on joy   

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

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

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"If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater."

Buddha on joy
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"He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us."

Butler, Samuel on joy
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"Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it."

Caddy, Eileen on joy
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"You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing."

Carnegie, Dale on joy
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"I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile."

Chrysler, Walter on joy   

"Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing."

Conner, Bart on joy   

"Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on joy
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"The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something."

Depew, Chauncey on joy   

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

Earnhardt, Dale on joy
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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. on joy   

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

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

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

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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."

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on joy
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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 on joy   

"Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity."

Goodman, Paul on joy
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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 on joy   

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

Graham, Katherine on joy
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"Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else."

Harvey, Paul on joy   

"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on joy   

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

Hepburn, Katharine on joy
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"Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited."

Hill, Napoleon on joy   

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

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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 on joy
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"To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than."

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"You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time."

Howe, Gordie on joy   

"True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united."

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von on joy   

"Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game."

Jordan, Michael on joy
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"Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got."

Judd, H. Stanley on joy