Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Harvey, Paul

Best Quotes about Joy

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

10.

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

Rohn, Jim

11.

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

Chuang Tzu

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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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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

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Hepburn, Katharine

27.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

40.

For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.

Stukane, Eileen

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The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.

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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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Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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.