Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Bible

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Biondi, Matt

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

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

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carnegie, Dale

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

17.

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

18.

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

Buck, Glen

19.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

20.

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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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Rosten, Leo

23.

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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

25.

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

Bradbury, Ray

26.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

28.

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

Bach, Richard

29.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

32.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

33.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

34.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

38.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

39.

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

Platen

40.

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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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

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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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May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

44.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

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

Bible

46.

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Graham, Katherine

48.

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

Lawrence, Harding

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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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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