Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Quarles, Francis

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Hepburn, Katharine

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

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

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

Bible

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Repound, Renee

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

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Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Harvey, Paul

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

Socrates

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Twain, Mark

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

May, Rollo

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

43.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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

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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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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 joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Bradbury, Ray