Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Fox, Matthew

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Judd, H. Stanley

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Socrates

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rosten, Leo

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

10.

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

Thackeray, William M.

11.

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

Biondi, Matt

12.

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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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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We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Nightingale, Earl

15.

'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

16.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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

18.

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

Depew, Chauncey

19.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

20.

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Richards, Mary Caroline

21.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

23.

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

Bach, Richard

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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

25.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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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Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

Mother Teresa

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

35.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

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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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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

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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

43.

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

44.

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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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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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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Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Graham, Katherine