Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Tourneur, Cyril

Best Quotes about Joy

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Rosten, Leo

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

'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

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

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

Bach, Richard

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Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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 prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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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If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

22.

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

Bible

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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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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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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Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Harvey, Paul

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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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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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

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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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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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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.

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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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I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

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

William Shakespeare

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.