Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Gillies, Jerry

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Graham, Katherine

I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

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

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 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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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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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

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

Repound, Renee

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

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

Harvey, Paul

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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 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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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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 the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Bible

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

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