Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Platen

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

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

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

Gillies, Jerry

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

10.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

11.

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

12.

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

Harvey, Paul

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Judd, H. Stanley

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Bach, Richard

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

William Shakespeare

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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.

25.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

27.

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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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 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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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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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

32.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

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

Biondi, Matt

34.

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Sir Edward Dyer

40.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

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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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I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

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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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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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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

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

Rohn, Jim

49.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

50.

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