Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Earnhardt, Dale

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Chuang Tzu

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.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Bradbury, Ray

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.

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

Graham, Katherine

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

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.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

12.

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

13.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

14.

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

Caddy, Eileen

15.

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.

16.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

17.

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

Fox, Matthew

18.

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

19.

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

Carnegie, Dale

20.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

21.

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

Michel de Montaigne

22.

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

23.

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

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

Depew, Chauncey

25.

'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

26.

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

27.

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

Hogan, Ben

28.

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

29.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

30.

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

31.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

32.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

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

Homoka, Oscar

34.

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

Harvey, Paul

35.

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

Talmud, The

36.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

37.

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

Platen

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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

39.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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

Hill, Napoleon

41.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

42.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

47.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

48.

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

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

50.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Hill, Napoleon