Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Tourneur, Cyril

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Caddy, Eileen

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Bach, Richard

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

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

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Bradbury, Ray

11.

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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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

14.

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

Graf, Steffi

15.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

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

Talmud, The

20.

I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

25.

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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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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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

29.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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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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There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

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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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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Rosten, Leo

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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

40.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

41.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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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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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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

William Shakespeare

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