Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Biondi, Matt

Best Quotes about Joy

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

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

Judd, H. Stanley

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Hepburn, Katharine

11.

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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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 only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Gillies, Jerry

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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Mother Teresa

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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

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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.

29.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Biondi, Matt

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Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

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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 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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Quarles, Francis

43.

I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Socrates

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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

Nin, Anais

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.