Motivational Quotes

Joy

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.

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Ruskin, John

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

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

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

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

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

Sarnoff, David

10.

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

Harvey, Paul

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Thackeray, William M.

13.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

16.

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

17.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

18.

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Chuang Tzu

23.

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

Graf, Steffi

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

Socrates

29.

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Phil Jackson

30.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

31.

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

Carnegie, Dale

32.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

33.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

34.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

'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

36.

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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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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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

39.

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

Michel de Montaigne

40.

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

41.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

42.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

43.

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

44.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

45.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

46.

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

William Shakespeare

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Joy, has no cost.