Quotes about joy

"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 on joy   

"Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment."

Kierkegaard, Søren on joy
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"Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out."

Korda, Michael on joy   

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

Lawrence, Harding on joy   

"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. on joy   

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

Leboeuf, Michael on joy
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"People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like."

Lincoln, Abraham on joy   

"Nothing is interesting if you are not interested."

Macinness, Helen on joy   

"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 on joy   

"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 on joy   

"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 on joy   

"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 on joy   

"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 on joy   

"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 on joy   

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

Marden, Orison Swett on joy
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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 on joy
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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 on joy
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"Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on joy
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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 on joy   

"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 on joy
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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 on joy   

"Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety."

Quarles, Francis on joy   

"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 on joy   

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

Rosten, Leo on joy   

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on joy   

"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."

Ruskin, John on joy   

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

Sarnoff, David on joy
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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. on joy   

"People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one."

Sculley, John on joy   

"He enjoys much who is thankful for little."

Secker, Thomas on joy   

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel on joy   

"Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do."

Sikorski, Gerry on joy   

"The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it."

Singer, Isaac Bashevis on joy   

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

Socrates on joy
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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 on joy
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"When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."

Thackeray, William M. on joy   

"The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity."

Twain, Mark on joy
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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."

Unknown, Source on joy   

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

Unknown, Source on joy   

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

Unknown, Source on joy