Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Ninon de Lenclos

Best Quotes about Joy

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.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Vauclain, Samuel

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

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

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.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Repound, Renee

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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

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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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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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Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! [Philippians 4:4]

Bible

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

Leboeuf, Michael

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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Socrates

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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