Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

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

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

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

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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Buck, Glen

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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

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

Harvey, Paul

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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Lawrence, Harding

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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

28.

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

Graf, Steffi

29.

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Bach, Richard

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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.