Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Socrates

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Biondi, Matt

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

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

Lawrence, Harding

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Twain, Mark

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

Graham, Katherine

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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 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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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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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

18.

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

29.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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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

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

Bible

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

39.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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 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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Quarles, Francis

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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John