Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

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

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Repound, Renee

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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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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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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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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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What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

34.

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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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

37.

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Rosten, Leo

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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Harvey, Paul