Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Bach, Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Socrates

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Blotnick, Srully

10.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

11.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

12.

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

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Judd, H. Stanley

19.

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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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

21.

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

Repound, Renee

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

23.

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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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

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I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

30.

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

Hogan, Ben

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

33.

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

40.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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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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 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 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