Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

- Richard Wagner

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

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.

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Bach, Richard

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Platen

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Thomas Campbell

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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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... 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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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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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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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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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

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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bible

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The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell

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

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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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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