Motivational Quotes

Joy

Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

- Browning, Robert

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

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

Michel de Montaigne

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Graf, Steffi

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

Anderson, Greg

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

Hill, Napoleon

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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 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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Bradbury, Ray

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People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.

Sculley, John

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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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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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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

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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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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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

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

Bach, Richard

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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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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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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