Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Bach, Richard

Best Quotes about Joy

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Tourneur, Cyril

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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.

Ballard, M. Russell

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

10.

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

Quarles, Francis

11.

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

Rohn, Jim

12.

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

Reade, Charles

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Gillies, Jerry

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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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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

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

Thomas Campbell

20.

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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The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

22.

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

23.

I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

Bible

24.

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

25.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Phil Jackson

27.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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.

32.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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.

Melchert, Harold V

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

35.

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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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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Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.

Socrates

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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

39.

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

Graf, Steffi

40.

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

Repound, Renee

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

43.

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

Bible

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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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'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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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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