Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Hogan, Ben

Best Quotes about Joy

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ruskin, John

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

Leboeuf, Michael

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Talmud, The

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

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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

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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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Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

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

Bach, 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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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

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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

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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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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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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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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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

Bible

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Bible

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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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

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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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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 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