Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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.

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

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

Buck, Glen

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Biondi, Matt

The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Platen

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If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

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

Harvey, Paul

17.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

18.

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

Fox, Matthew

19.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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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

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Socrates

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The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

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

Beecher, Henry Ward