Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Graf, Steffi

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Sarnoff, David

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

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

15.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Graham, Katherine

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

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

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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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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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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Lewis, C. S.

29.

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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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... 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 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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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

May, Rollo

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael