Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Sarnoff, David

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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 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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A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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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

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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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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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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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The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Blotnick, Srully

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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Hill, Napoleon