Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

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

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

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

'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

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

12.

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.

13.

... 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 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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To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

16.

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

Repound, Renee

17.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

18.

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

19.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

22.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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

25.

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

26.

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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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

28.

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

29.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

30.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

31.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

36.

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

Bach, Richard

39.

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

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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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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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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

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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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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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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

46.

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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Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! [Philippians 4:4]

Bible

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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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