Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Depew, Chauncey

Best Quotes about Joy

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Buddha

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Thomas Campbell

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

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

Gillies, Jerry

10.

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

11.

Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

Sarnoff, David

12.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

13.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

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

15.

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

16.

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

17.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

18.

People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.

Sculley, John

19.

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

20.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

21.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

22.

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

Mother Teresa

23.

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

24.

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

Reade, Charles

25.

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

26.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

27.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

28.

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

Nin, Anais

29.

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

Waitley, Denis

30.

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

Homoka, Oscar

31.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

32.

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

Hogan, Ben

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

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

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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

37.

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

38.

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

Bach, Richard

39.

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

Rosten, Leo

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

48.

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

Anderson, Greg

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

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

Graham, Katherine