Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Ruskin, John

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

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

10.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

11.

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

12.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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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

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

25.

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

Bible

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

Sarnoff, David

32.

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

Homoka, Oscar

33.

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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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

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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 joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese