Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Caddy, Eileen

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Socrates

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

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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.

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

Thomas Campbell

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

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Sarnoff, David

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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

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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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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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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Graham, Katherine

25.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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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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

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Talmud, The

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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]

Bible

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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 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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bible

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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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese