Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Earnhardt, Dale

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Socrates

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Bradbury, Ray

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Hepburn, Katharine

10.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

15.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

16.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Confucius

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

Biondi, Matt

19.

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

Bible

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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Depew, Chauncey

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Rosten, Leo

32.

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

William Shakespeare

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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

42.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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

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

Platen

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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.