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

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Platen

People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.

Sculley, John

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Thomas Campbell

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Gibbs, Joe

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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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A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.

31.

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

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

Repound, Renee

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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Gillies, Jerry

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

41.

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

43.

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Buck, Glen