Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Bradbury, Ray

Best Quotes about Joy

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

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Leboeuf, Michael

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Bach, Richard

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Graham, Katherine

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Blotnick, Srully

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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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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

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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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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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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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar