Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Judd, H. Stanley

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Tourneur, Cyril

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Mother Teresa

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

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

Chuang Tzu

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

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Vauclain, Samuel

10.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

11.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

12.

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

Harvey, Paul

13.

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

14.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

16.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

18.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

19.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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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

21.

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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Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

Sarnoff, David

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

Carnegie, Dale

25.

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

Michel de Montaigne

26.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

Gibbs, Joe

28.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

30.

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

Bradbury, Ray

33.

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

Rosten, Leo

34.

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

35.

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

Bach, Richard

36.

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.

37.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

39.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

46.

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

47.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

May, Rollo