Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Judd, H. Stanley

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Platen

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Socrates

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'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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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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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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Twain, Mark

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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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 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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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

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

Biondi, Matt

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The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Blotnick, Srully

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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

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Bible

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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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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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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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The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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