Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

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

10.

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

11.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katharine

12.

I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

13.

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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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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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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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

23.

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

Graham, Katherine

24.

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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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

26.

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

27.

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

28.

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

30.

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

Sarnoff, David

31.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

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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

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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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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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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 is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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

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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

41.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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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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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You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.

Howe, Gordie

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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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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