Motivational Quotes

Joy

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

- Stanislaw J. Lec

Best Quotes about Joy

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Tourneur, Cyril

12.

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Socrates

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

Bible

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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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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Platen

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

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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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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Repound, Renee

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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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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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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Sarnoff, David

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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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If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.