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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

William Shakespeare

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

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

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

Platen

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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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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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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

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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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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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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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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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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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