Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Thomas Campbell

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Bach, Richard

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

10.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

11.

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

Gillies, Jerry

12.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

13.

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

Anderson, Greg

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Carnegie, Dale

16.

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

Waitley, Denis

17.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

18.

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

19.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

20.

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

Socrates

21.

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

Thomas Campbell

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

25.

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

26.

The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

30.

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

31.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

32.

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

Talmud, The

33.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

34.

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

35.

We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.

Repound, Renee

36.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

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

Hill, Napoleon

38.

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

Chuang Tzu

39.

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

40.

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

Bradbury, Ray

41.

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

42.

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

43.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec

44.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

45.

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

Biondi, Matt

46.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

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

Sarnoff, David