Motivational Quotes

Joy

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

- Sikorski, Gerry

Best Quotes about Joy

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

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

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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 only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bach, Richard

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

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A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Bible

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

May, Rollo

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Bible

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Quarles, Francis

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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

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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, 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