Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

- Colgrove, Dr. Melba

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Biondi, Matt

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

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

Bible

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

Wilder, Thornton

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

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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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

12.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Platen

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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

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

Rosten, Leo

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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

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

Graham, Katherine

21.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Harvey, Paul

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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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 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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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

36.

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

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Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.

Marcia, Wieder

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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

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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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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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We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.

Repound, Renee

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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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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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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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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 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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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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