Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Biondi, Matt

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Leboeuf, Michael

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.

Liebman, Joshua Loth

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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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

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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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The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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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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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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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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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gillies, Jerry

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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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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