Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

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

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

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

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

10.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

11.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Bradbury, Ray

19.

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

Bible

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

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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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Hogan, Ben

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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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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

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

Sarnoff, David

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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 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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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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