Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Homoka, Oscar

Best Quotes about Joy

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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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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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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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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

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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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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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Socrates

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Sarnoff, David

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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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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

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Bible

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May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Thomas Campbell

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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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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

Bible

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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