Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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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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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Socrates

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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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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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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 first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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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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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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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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