Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Judd, H. Stanley

Best Quotes about Joy

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Bible

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Harvey, Paul

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My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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 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 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.

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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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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Bach, Richard

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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

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

Thomas Campbell

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The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Repound, Renee

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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