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

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Anderson, Greg

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

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

Vauclain, Samuel

'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

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.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Thomas Campbell

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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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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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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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We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.

Repound, Renee

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

Mother Teresa

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

19.

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

Bible

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Gillies, Jerry

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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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The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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

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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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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

40.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Rohn, Jim

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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.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach