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

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Mother Teresa

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Earnhardt, Dale

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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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If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

19.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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 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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With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Confucius

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

Bach, Richard

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

Repound, Renee

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Fox, Matthew