Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Bible

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

10.

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

Rosten, Leo

11.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

Sarnoff, David

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Thomas Campbell

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

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

Graf, Steffi

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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Nicklaus, Jack

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

37.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.

Repound, Renee

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

Harvey, Paul

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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

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

43.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques