Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Buck, Glen

Best Quotes about Joy

1.

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.

2.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

3.

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

Rohn, Jim

4.

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

Buck, Glen

5.

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

6.

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

7.

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

8.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

9.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Graham, Katherine

13.

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

Lewis, C. S.

14.

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

15.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

16.

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

Mother Teresa

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

Repound, Renee

20.

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

Michel de Montaigne

21.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

22.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

23.

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

24.

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

Rosten, Leo

25.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

26.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

27.

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

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.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

30.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

31.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

32.

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

33.

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

Hill, Napoleon

34.

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

Bradbury, Ray

35.

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

Fox, Matthew

36.

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

37.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

41.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

42.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

43.

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

Harvey, Paul

44.

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

Chuang Tzu

45.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

46.

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

Buddha

47.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Marden, Orison Swett