Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Thomas Campbell

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Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

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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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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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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.

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

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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.

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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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]

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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

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

Bradbury, Ray

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The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

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Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Platen

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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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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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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 walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.