Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Harvey, Paul

Best Quotes about Joy

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

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

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

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Repound, Renee

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Gibbs, Joe

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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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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There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

12.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

13.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

Browning, Robert

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

Platen

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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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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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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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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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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 enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Talmud, The

34.

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

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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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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.

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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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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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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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You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Carnegie, Dale

41.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis