Motivational Quotes

Joy

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

- Hogan, Ben

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Bible

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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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

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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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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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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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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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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Mother Teresa

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

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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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