Motivational Quotes

Joy

The only joy in the world is to begin.

- Cesare Pavese

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.

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

Bible

3.

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

4.

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

Sir Edward Dyer

5.

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

6.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

7.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

8.

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

Hill, Napoleon

9.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

10.

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

11.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

12.

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

13.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

15.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

16.

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

17.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

18.

He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.

Blake, William

19.

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

20.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

21.

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

22.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

23.

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

24.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

25.

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

Carnegie, Dale

26.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

27.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

28.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

29.

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

Talmud, The

30.

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

31.

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

Hogan, Ben

32.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

34.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

35.

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

Anderson, Greg

36.

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

Repound, Renee

37.

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

Chuang Tzu

38.

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

Reade, Charles

39.

The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell

40.

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

Buddha

41.

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

Socrates

42.

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

Homoka, Oscar

43.

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