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

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Confucius

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

Sir Edward Dyer

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Buddha

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

Tourneur, Cyril

10.

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

Socrates

11.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

12.

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

13.

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

Gillies, Jerry

14.

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

15.

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

Rosten, Leo

16.

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

Gibbs, Joe

17.

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.

18.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

19.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

20.

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

21.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

22.

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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The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.

24.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

25.

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

Thomas Campbell

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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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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

28.

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

29.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Hill, Napoleon

32.

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

Quarles, Francis

33.

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

34.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

35.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

36.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

37.

'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

38.

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

Thackeray, William M.

39.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

40.

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

Graham, Katherine

41.

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

42.

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

43.

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.

44.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

45.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

47.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

48.

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

49.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

50.

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

Shaw, George Bernard