Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Reade, Charles

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

11.

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

Platen

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

Michel de Montaigne

16.

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thomas Campbell

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

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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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... 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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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 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

33.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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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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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