Motivational Quotes

Joy

The only joy in the world is to begin.

- Cesare Pavese

Best Quotes about Joy

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

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

The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

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

Gibbs, Joe

10.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Bach, Richard

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It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Platen

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Sarnoff, David

29.

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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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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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

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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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There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

Bible

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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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We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Rosten, Leo

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

William Shakespeare

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Harvey, Paul

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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