Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Sir Wilfred Grenfell

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Socrates

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Bach, Richard

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

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

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

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

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.

10.

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

11.

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

Biondi, Matt

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If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

15.

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Chuang Tzu

20.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

21.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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

25.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Sarnoff, David

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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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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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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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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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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

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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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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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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

43.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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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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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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Platen

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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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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