Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Joy

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

Rosten, Leo

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Hogan, Ben

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.

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

14.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

18.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

19.

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

20.

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

Rohn, Jim

21.

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

Graham, Katherine

22.

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

Caddy, Eileen

23.

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

Schwab, Charles M.

24.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

26.

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

Buck, Glen

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Thomas Campbell

30.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

31.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Michel de Montaigne

36.

'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

37.

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

Talmud, The

38.

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

39.

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

Biondi, Matt

40.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Homoka, Oscar

44.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

45.

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

46.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

47.

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

Sir Edward Dyer

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

50.

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