Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

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

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

Harvey, Paul

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

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

William Shakespeare

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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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

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Rosten, Leo

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

Nin, Anais

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Bible

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

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

Sarnoff, David

34.

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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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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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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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