Motivational Quotes

Joy

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

- Macinness, Helen

Best Quotes about Joy

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.

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

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Graf, Steffi

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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

Gibbs, Joe

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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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

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

Anderson, Greg

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Thomas Campbell

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

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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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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

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

Repound, Renee