Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Best Quotes about Joy

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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

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

5.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

6.

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

7.

I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

8.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

9.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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.

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

Harvey, Paul

12.

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

Gibbs, Joe

13.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

14.

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

Reade, Charles

15.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

16.

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

Sir Edward Dyer

17.

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

18.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

21.

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

Carnegie, Dale

22.

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

23.

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

Lawrence, Harding

24.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

25.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

26.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

27.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

28.

'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

29.

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

Rosten, Leo

30.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

31.

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

32.

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

Hill, Napoleon

33.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

34.

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

35.

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

36.

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

Buck, Glen

37.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

39.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

40.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

41.

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

Bible

42.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

43.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

44.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

47.

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

Bach, Richard

48.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

49.

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

Bradbury, Ray

50.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.