Motivational Quotes

Joy

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang 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.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

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

Buck, Glen

Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Lawrence, Harding

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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

11.

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

Rosten, Leo

12.

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

Bradbury, Ray

14.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

16.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

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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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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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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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

May, Rollo

21.

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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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

25.

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

26.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

27.

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

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

Harvey, Paul

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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.

30.

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

31.

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

Bible

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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

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

38.

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

Socrates

40.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Fox, Matthew

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