Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Biondi, Matt

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

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

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

Bible

'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

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buck, Glen

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Repound, Renee

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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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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Sarnoff, David

31.

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

Bible

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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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 only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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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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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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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The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Bach, Richard

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The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Blotnick, Srully

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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