Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Joy

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Bradbury, Ray

4.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

5.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

6.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

Wilder, Thornton

7.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

8.

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

Bible

9.

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

Bach, Richard

10.

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

11.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

12.

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

Michel de Montaigne

13.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

14.

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

15.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

16.

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

Gibbs, Joe

17.

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

18.

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

19.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

20.

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Blotnick, Srully

21.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

22.

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

Sarnoff, David

23.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

24.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

25.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

26.

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

27.

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

Carnegie, Dale

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

30.

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

Gillies, Jerry

31.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

32.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.

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

Platen

34.

The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell

35.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

36.

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

Rohn, Jim

37.

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

Thackeray, William M.

38.

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

Sir Edward Dyer

39.

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

40.

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

Socrates

41.

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

42.

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

Thomas Campbell

43.

'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

44.

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

45.

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

Chuang Tzu

46.

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

Fox, Matthew

47.

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

48.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

49.

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

Buck, Glen

50.

Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding