Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Chuang Tzu

You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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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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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

19.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Bible

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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

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Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

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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 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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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Platen

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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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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Harvey, Paul

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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

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

Socrates

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Bradbury, Ray

43.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

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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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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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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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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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'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

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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

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten