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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Anderson, Greg

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Chuang Tzu

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 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

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Platen

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Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.

Socrates

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

Bible

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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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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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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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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ruskin, John

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

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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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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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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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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.