Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Homoka, Oscar

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Gibbs, Joe

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

Sarnoff, David

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Dickinson, Emily

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Bach, Richard

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

Thomas Campbell

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There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Graham, Katherine

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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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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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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Bible

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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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What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Reade, Charles

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