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

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

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

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

10.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

11.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

13.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Confucius

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

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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

25.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

27.

The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

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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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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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Repound, Renee

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Reade, Charles

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

40.

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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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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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 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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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.