Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Joy

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.

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

Hogan, Ben

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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.

Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

10.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

11.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

12.

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 get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

18.

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.

19.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

20.

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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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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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

34.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

40.

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

Sarnoff, David

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