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

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

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

Platen

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

William Shakespeare

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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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

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Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Tourneur, Cyril

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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Harvey, Paul

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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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, 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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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

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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

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There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

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

Bible

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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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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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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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.

42.

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Hill, Napoleon

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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Hepburn, Katharine