Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Harvey, Paul

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

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

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

10.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

11.

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

12.

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Caddy, Eileen

14.

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

21.

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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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

24.

For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.

Stukane, Eileen

25.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

27.

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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Earnhardt, Dale

30.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

31.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

32.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

33.

Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

34.

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

35.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

40.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

41.

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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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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.

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

Socrates

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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

Platen

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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.