Motivational Quotes

Joy

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

- Leboeuf, Michael

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Chuang Tzu

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

Rosten, Leo

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'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Dickinson, Emily

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Biondi, Matt

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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Bach, Richard

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Quarles, Francis

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bible

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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Gillies, Jerry

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He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.

Blake, William

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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh