Motivational Quotes

Joy

'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Bach, Richard

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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.

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

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

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

Graf, Steffi

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.

10.

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

Bible

11.

You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Earnhardt, Dale

12.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

13.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

14.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

15.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

16.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

17.

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

Bible

18.

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

19.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

23.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

24.

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

25.

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

26.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

27.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

28.

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

29.

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

Chuang Tzu

30.

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

Bradbury, Ray

31.

If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

32.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

33.

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

Platen

34.

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

35.

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

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.

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Nightingale, Earl

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Gillies, Jerry

41.

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

Sarnoff, David

42.

Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

46.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

47.

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

Thomas Campbell

48.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

49.

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

50.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese