Motivational Quotes

Joy

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

- Hogan, Ben

Best Quotes about Joy

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

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

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

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

Sir Edward Dyer

10.

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

11.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

12.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

13.

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

14.

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

15.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

16.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

22.

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

Thomas Campbell

25.

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

26.

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

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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.

28.

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Quarles, Francis

30.

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

Platen

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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 more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

33.

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

Sarnoff, David

35.

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

Rosten, Leo

36.

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

Repound, Renee

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

William Shakespeare

39.

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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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ruskin, John

43.

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

Michel de Montaigne

44.

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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

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

Buddha