Motivational Quotes

Joy

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

- Leboeuf, Michael

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

Bible

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.

Stukane, Eileen

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.

Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

10.

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

11.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

12.

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

13.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

14.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

15.

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

16.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

17.

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

Michel de Montaigne

18.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

'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

20.

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

Lewis, C. S.

21.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

22.

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

Carnegie, Dale

23.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

24.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

25.

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

Reade, Charles

26.

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

Anderson, Greg

27.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

28.

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

Rosten, Leo

29.

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

Hill, Napoleon

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

33.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

34.

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

35.

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

36.

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

37.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

38.

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

39.

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

Ruskin, John

40.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

41.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

42.

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

Caddy, Eileen

43.

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

44.

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

Harvey, Paul

45.

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

Talmud, The

47.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

Mother Teresa

48.

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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Mother Teresa