Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Judd, H. Stanley

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

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

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.

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

10.

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

12.

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

13.

The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Quarles, Francis

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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.

21.

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

Lawrence, Harding

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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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When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?

Campolo, Tony

24.

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

25.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Rohn, Jim

27.

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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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

31.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

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

Bradbury, Ray

35.

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

36.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

39.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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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

41.

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

43.

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

Homoka, Oscar

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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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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Harvey, Paul

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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin