Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

1.

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.

2.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

3.

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

4.

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

5.

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

6.

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

7.

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

Bach, Richard

8.

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

Gillies, Jerry

9.

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

10.

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

Socrates

11.

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

Biondi, Matt

12.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

13.

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

Anderson, Greg

14.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

15.

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

16.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

17.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

18.

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

Hill, Napoleon

19.

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

Lawrence, Harding

20.

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

Lewis, C. S.

21.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

22.

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

23.

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

Homoka, Oscar

24.

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

Graf, Steffi

25.

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

Platen

26.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

27.

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

28.

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

29.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

Reade, Charles

33.

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

Graham, Katherine

34.

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

Depew, Chauncey

35.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

36.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

37.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

38.

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

39.

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

Thackeray, William M.

40.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

41.

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

42.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

43.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.

Howe, Gordie

44.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

45.

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

Rosten, Leo

46.

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

47.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

48.

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

Carnegie, Dale

49.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

50.

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