Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Biondi, Matt

Best Quotes about Joy

The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

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

Bradbury, Ray

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

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

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

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Sir Edward Dyer

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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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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

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

Bach, Richard

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

William Shakespeare

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Buck, Glen

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Graf, Steffi

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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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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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John