Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

1.

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

2.

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

Harvey, Paul

3.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

4.

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Richards, Mary Caroline

5.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

6.

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

7.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

8.

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

Hill, Napoleon

9.

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

Thomas Campbell

10.

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

11.

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

Platen

12.

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

13.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

14.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

15.

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

Repound, Renee

16.

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

17.

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

18.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Tourneur, Cyril

20.

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.

21.

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

Anderson, Greg

22.

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

Homoka, Oscar

23.

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

Bradbury, Ray

24.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

25.

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

Sir Edward Dyer

26.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

27.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

28.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

29.

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

Michel de Montaigne

30.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

31.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

32.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

33.

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

34.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

35.

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.

36.

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

Lewis, C. S.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

40.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

41.

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

Caddy, Eileen

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

48.

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