Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Biondi, Matt

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Buck, Glen

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

Socrates

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Platen

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

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

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

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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

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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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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.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Bible

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If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

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

Sir Edward Dyer

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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

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Repound, Renee

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael