Motivational Quotes

Joy

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

- Sikorski, Gerry

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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

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

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

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

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

Repound, Renee

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Platen

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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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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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Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

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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

18.

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

Socrates

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Bach, Richard

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

Bible

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The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.

Liebman, Joshua Loth

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To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

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It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Buck, Glen

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

Depew, Chauncey

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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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'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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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