Motivational Quotes

Joy

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Hepburn, Katharine

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Biondi, Matt

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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 not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Socrates

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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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'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Dickinson, Emily

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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.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Platen

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May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.

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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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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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