Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Caddy, Eileen

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Homoka, Oscar

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Carnegie, Dale

10.

Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.

Marcia, Wieder

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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

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

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Ruskin, John

19.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

20.

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

Bible

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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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

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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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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

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Bible

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The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

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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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The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

Schwab, Charles M.

33.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Michel de Montaigne

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My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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

William Shakespeare

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

Platen

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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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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

43.

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

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

Socrates

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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Bradbury, Ray