Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Chuang Tzu

Best Quotes about Joy

1.

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

Harvey, Paul

2.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

3.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

4.

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

Talmud, The

5.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

8.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

9.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

10.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Repound, Renee

14.

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

15.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

16.

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

17.

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

Lewis, C. S.

18.

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

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

20.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

21.

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

Platen

22.

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

Reade, Charles

23.

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

Bradbury, Ray

24.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

25.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

26.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

27.

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

Sir Edward Dyer

28.

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

Chuang Tzu

29.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

30.

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

31.

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

Thomas Campbell

32.

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.

33.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

35.

Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

36.

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

37.

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

Buddha

38.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

39.

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

Anderson, Greg

40.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

41.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

42.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

43.

A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.

44.

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

45.

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.

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen