Inspirations

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

- Greg Anderson

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Richard Bach

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.

- M Russell Ballard

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, Bible

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

- Matt Biondi

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.

- Srully Blotnick

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

- Ray Bradbury

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

- Glen Buck

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

- Eileen Caddy

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

- Dale Carnegie

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.

- Walter Chrysler

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.

- Bart Conner

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

- Anthony J D'Angelo

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

- Dale Earnhardt

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

- Malcolm S Forbes

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

- Matthew Fox

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

- Joe Gibbs

What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

- Jerry Gillies

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

- Jerry Gillies

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Paul Goodman

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

- Steffi Graf

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

- Katherine Graham

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

- Paul Harvey

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

- Katharine Hepburn

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Napoleon Hill

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

- Ben Hogan

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.

- Gordie Howe

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

- Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

- Michael Jordan

Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.

- H Stanley Judd

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.

- Michael Korda

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

- Harding Lawrence

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.

- Stephen B Leacock

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

- Abraham Lincoln

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

- Helen Macinness

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.

- Wieder Marcia

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.

- Wieder Marcia

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.

- Orison Swett Marden

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.

- Orison Swett Marden

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

- Orison Swett Marden

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.

- Orison Swett Marden

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.

- Orison Swett Marden

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.

- Harold V Melchert

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.

- Jack Nicklaus

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.

- Earl Nightingale

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.

- Earl Nightingale

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.

- Jesse Owens

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.

- Mary Caroline Richards

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

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

- David Sarnoff

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.

- John Sculley

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

- Florence Scovel Shinn

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

- Gerry Sikorski

Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think.

- Socrates

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

- Source Unknown

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

- Samuel Vauclain

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

- Denis Waitley

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.

- Thornton Wilder

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

- Sir James M Barrie

I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth.

- John 4, Bible

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice!

- Philippians 4:4, Bible

Joy runs deeper than despair.

- Corrie Ten Boom

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?

- Tony Campolo

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

- Doctor Melba Colgrove

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

- Pierre Coneille

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

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.

- William Congreve

We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.

- R W Dale

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

- Henry Fielding

Joys divided are increased.

- Josiah Gilbert Holland

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

- Elbert Hubbard

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

- C S Lewis

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.

- Rollo May

Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.

- Alfred A Montapert

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

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

- Jean Paul

Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

- Platen

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

- Chinese Proverb

We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.

- Renee Repound

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.

- John Robbins

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

- Jim Rohn

The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

- Samuel M Shoemaker

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.

- Eileen Stukane

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

- Eileen Stukane

May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.

- Source Unknown

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.

- Source Unknown

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

- Richard Wagner

Joy, has no cost.

- Marianne Williamson

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Get Inspired for Success Strategy 7: Develop Emotional Maturity

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

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

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

What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

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

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

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

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

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

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

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

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

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

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

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.

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

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.

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.

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

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.

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think.

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

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

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.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth.

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice!

Joy runs deeper than despair.

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?

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

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.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.

We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.

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

Joys divided are increased.

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

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for 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.

Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.

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

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.