Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Judd, H. Stanley

Nightingale, Earl

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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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'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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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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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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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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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

Nin, Anais

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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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 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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Sarnoff, David

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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.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Sir Edward Dyer

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Shakespeare

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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]