Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Bradbury, Ray

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Talmud, The

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

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

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Graham, Katherine

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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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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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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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If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

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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

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

Platen

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As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

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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

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

Bach, Richard

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

Homoka, Oscar

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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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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

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I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Repound, Renee

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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

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Thomas Campbell

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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