Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Bach, Richard

Best Quotes about Joy

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

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

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

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

10.

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Nightingale, Earl

11.

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

Fox, Matthew

12.

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

13.

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

Carnegie, Dale

14.

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

15.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

16.

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

Chuang Tzu

17.

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

18.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

19.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

20.

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

21.

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

Hogan, Ben

22.

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

23.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

24.

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

Sir Edward Dyer

25.

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

Buddha

26.

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

27.

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

Homoka, Oscar

28.

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

29.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Hill, Napoleon

30.

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

31.

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

Harvey, Paul

32.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

33.

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

34.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

35.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

36.

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.

37.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

38.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

39.

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

40.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

41.

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

42.

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

Buck, Glen

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

47.

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

Depew, Chauncey

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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

49.

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

Bible

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

Gibbs, Joe