Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Joy

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

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Platen

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

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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

11.

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

Graf, Steffi

12.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

Lewis, C. S.

14.

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

15.

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

Gibbs, Joe

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Twain, Mark

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

Sarnoff, David

30.

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

Anderson, Greg

32.

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

Mother Teresa

33.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

34.

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

35.

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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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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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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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 don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

40.

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

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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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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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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

45.

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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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

47.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

48.

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

49.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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