Motivational Quotes

Joy

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

- Sikorski, Gerry

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

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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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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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

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As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Mother Teresa

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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 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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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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I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

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

Sarnoff, David

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

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A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.

33.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

35.

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]

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Repound, Renee

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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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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

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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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If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.