Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Biondi, Matt

Best Quotes about Joy

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Fox, Matthew

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

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bible

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

10.

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

Rosten, Leo

11.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

12.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

13.

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

14.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Confucius

15.

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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People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

Gibbs, Joe

17.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

18.

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

19.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

20.

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

Graham, Katherine

21.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

22.

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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I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

24.

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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

26.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

27.

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

28.

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

Sarnoff, David

29.

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

30.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

William Shakespeare

33.

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.

34.

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

Repound, Renee

35.

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

36.

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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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

38.

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

39.

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

Chuang Tzu

40.

'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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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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

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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

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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 first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Twain, Mark

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