Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Gibbs, Joe

Best Quotes about Joy

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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.

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

The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Judd, H. Stanley

11.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Repound, Renee

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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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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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He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.

Blake, William

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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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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

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

24.

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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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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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 is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

37.

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

Depew, Chauncey

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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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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

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