Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Joy

1.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Leacock, Stephen B.

2.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

3.

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

Rosten, Leo

4.

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

5.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

6.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Gillies, Jerry

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

13.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

14.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

15.

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

Socrates

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

18.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

19.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

20.

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

21.

The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

22.

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

23.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

24.

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

Buck, Glen

25.

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

Mother Teresa

26.

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

Michel de Montaigne

27.

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

28.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

29.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

30.

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

Harvey, Paul

31.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

32.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

34.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

36.

I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

37.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

39.

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

40.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

41.

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

42.

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

Anderson, Greg

43.

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

Chuang Tzu

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

47.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

48.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

49.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.