Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Anderson, Greg

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Gibbs, Joe

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, S°ren

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Buck, Glen

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Repound, Renee

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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

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

Quarles, Francis

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Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

Browning, Robert

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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

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The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.

Liebman, Joshua Loth

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

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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

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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.

Gillies, Jerry

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

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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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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.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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

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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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Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes