Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Joy

If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

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

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

Mother Teresa

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

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Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bach, Richard

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

Lawrence, Harding

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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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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

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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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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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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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The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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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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