Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Chuang Tzu

Best Quotes about Joy

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Fox, Matthew

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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

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

Bach, Richard

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

Quarles, Francis

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Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Bible

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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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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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Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

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The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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