Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Joy

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Socrates

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Talmud, The

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

10.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

11.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

12.

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

Depew, Chauncey

13.

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

Graf, Steffi

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

Carnegie, Dale

15.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

18.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

22.

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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

24.

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

Thomas Campbell

25.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Biondi, Matt

27.

'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

28.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

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

Graham, Katherine

30.

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

Bible

31.

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.

32.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.

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

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

Quarles, Francis

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Lewis, C. S.

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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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