Motivational Quotes

Joy

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

- Anderson, Greg

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Rosten, Leo

'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

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

Thomas Campbell

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Bach, Richard

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

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

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Bible

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Chuang Tzu

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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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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

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

Socrates

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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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 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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Bible

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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

Mother Teresa

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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 is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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