Motivational Quotes

Joy

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

- Homoka, Oscar

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

10.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

11.

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

Michel de Montaigne

12.

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

Chuang Tzu

14.

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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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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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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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Harvey, Paul

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Gibbs, Joe

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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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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My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

40.

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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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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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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

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

Bible

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

49.

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.

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

Quarles, Francis