Motivational Quotes

Joy

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

- Stanislaw J. Lec

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.

Blake, William

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

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

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

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

10.

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.

11.

I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

Bible

12.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

15.

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

Thomas Campbell

16.

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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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

Gibbs, Joe

20.

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'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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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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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You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Socrates

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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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There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

31.

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

Rosten, Leo

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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 man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Marden, Orison Swett

37.

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

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

Fox, Matthew

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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

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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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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Sarnoff, David

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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 New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.