Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Platen

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Lewis, C. S.

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.

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

Socrates

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Harvey, Paul

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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

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Ruskin, John

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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.

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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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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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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 is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

William Shakespeare

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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

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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 is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Bible

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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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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Thomas Campbell

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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

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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