Motivational Quotes

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]

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Best Quotes about Joy

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

Bradbury, Ray

The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell

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

Leboeuf, Michael

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

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

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Chuang Tzu

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.

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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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It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Socrates

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

Gibbs, Joe

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

William Shakespeare

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Buddha

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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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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Rosten, Leo

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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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