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

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

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.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

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

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Repound, Renee

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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

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

Bible

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'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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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.

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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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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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Platen

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bach, Richard

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

28.

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

Sarnoff, David

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

31.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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?

Campolo, Tony

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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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He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.

Blake, William

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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.

Blotnick, Srully

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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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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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

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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

42.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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 the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Waitley, Denis

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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.