Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Graham, Katherine

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Vauclain, Samuel

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

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

Talmud, The

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

10.

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

11.

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

Thackeray, William M.

12.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

15.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

16.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

17.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

18.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

19.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

20.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

21.

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

Bradbury, Ray

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Fox, Matthew

24.

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

25.

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

26.

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Marden, Orison Swett

27.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

28.

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

Thomas Campbell

29.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

30.

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

Buddha

31.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

32.

'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

33.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

34.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

35.

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

Gibbs, Joe

36.

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

37.

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

Graf, Steffi

38.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

41.

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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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

43.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

44.

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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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

46.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

47.

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

Bach, Richard

48.

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

Bible

49.

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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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.