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

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

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

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

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Bible

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Caddy, Eileen

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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

18.

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

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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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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

21.

'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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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A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

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

Harvey, Paul

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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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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

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

30.

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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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.

Stukane, Eileen

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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

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

Quarles, Francis

34.

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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.

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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

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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

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

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

42.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Repound, Renee

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