Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

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Best Quotes about Joy

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

William Shakespeare

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

Mother Teresa

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bible

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

10.

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

11.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

12.

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

Bible

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

Earnhardt, Dale

16.

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.

17.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

21.

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

Socrates

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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

23.

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Buddha

27.

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

Lawrence, Harding

28.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

31.

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

Michel de Montaigne

32.

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

Talmud, The

33.

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

Bach, Richard

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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

35.

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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Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

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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.

40.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

42.

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.

43.

... 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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I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Thomas Campbell

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas