Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Gillies, Jerry

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Reade, Charles

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

Platen

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

10.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

11.

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

12.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Chuang Tzu

16.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

17.

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

Carnegie, Dale

18.

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

19.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

20.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

21.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

22.

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

Quarles, Francis

23.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Gibbs, Joe

28.

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

29.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Gillies, Jerry

32.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

33.

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

34.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

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

36.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

37.

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

Fox, Matthew

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

42.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

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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

47.

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

Hill, Napoleon

48.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

49.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katharine

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'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