Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Graf, Steffi

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

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

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

Socrates

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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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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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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Bible

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Repound, Renee

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang 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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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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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

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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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I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

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What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Biondi, Matt

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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