Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Platen

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Rosten, Leo

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Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

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

Harvey, Paul

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Biondi, Matt

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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 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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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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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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The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Bach, Richard

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

37.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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

39.

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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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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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Repound, Renee

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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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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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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten