Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Biondi, Matt

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Anderson, Greg

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

31.

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

Repound, Renee

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Sarnoff, David

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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