Motivational Quotes

Joy

Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

- Biondi, Matt

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Socrates

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Repound, Renee

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

Bible

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Caddy, Eileen

11.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bach, Richard

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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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You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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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

17.

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

18.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Rosten, Leo

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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

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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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

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

Bible

35.

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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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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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 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