Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Rosten, Leo

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

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

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

You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Carnegie, Dale

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.

Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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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.

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No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Repound, Renee

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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

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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

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

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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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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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Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

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

William Shakespeare

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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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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 enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

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

Socrates

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Sarnoff, David