Motivational Quotes

Joy

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

- Graf, Steffi

Best Quotes about Joy

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

A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

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

Graham, Katherine

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

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

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

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

10.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

11.

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

Nin, Anais

12.

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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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

May, Rollo

14.

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

15.

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

Lewis, C. S.

16.

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

Thomas Campbell

17.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

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

19.

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

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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

21.

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

23.

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.

24.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

25.

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

Bradbury, Ray

26.

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

27.

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

28.

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

29.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

30.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

31.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

32.

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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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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

35.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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

38.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Sarnoff, David

40.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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 man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Marden, Orison Swett

44.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Hill, Napoleon

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

46.

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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Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

48.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

49.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Stanislaw J. Lec