Motivational Quotes

Joy

The only joy in the world is to begin.

- Cesare Pavese

Best Quotes about Joy

1.

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

Depew, Chauncey

2.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

3.

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

Platen

4.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

5.

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

6.

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

7.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

8.

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

Harvey, Paul

9.

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

Reade, Charles

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.

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

12.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

13.

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

Fox, Matthew

14.

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

Bradbury, Ray

15.

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

Gibbs, Joe

16.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

17.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

18.

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

Rosten, Leo

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

22.

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

Graf, Steffi

23.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

24.

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

Socrates

25.

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

Thomas Campbell

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.

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

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

31.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

32.

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

33.

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

Rohn, Jim

34.

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

Ruskin, John

35.

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

36.

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

Repound, Renee

37.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

38.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

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

Graham, Katherine

42.

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

43.

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