Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

1.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

2.

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

Hill, Napoleon

3.

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

Chuang Tzu

4.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

5.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

6.

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

Gillies, Jerry

7.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

8.

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Richards, Mary Caroline

9.

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

10.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

11.

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

Michel de Montaigne

12.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

13.

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

Anderson, Greg

14.

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

15.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

16.

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

Bach, Richard

17.

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

Homoka, Oscar

18.

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

19.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

20.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

21.

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.

22.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

24.

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

Graf, Steffi

25.

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

26.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

27.

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

28.

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

Thackeray, William M.

29.

I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

30.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

31.

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

Platen

32.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

33.

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.

34.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

35.

People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

Gibbs, Joe

36.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

37.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

'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

42.

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

Socrates

43.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

44.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

45.

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

46.

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

Depew, Chauncey

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

50.

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