Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

1.

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

Sarnoff, David

2.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

3.

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

4.

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

Platen

5.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

8.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

9.

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

Depew, Chauncey

10.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

11.

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

12.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Thackeray, William M.

15.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

16.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

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

Thomas Campbell

18.

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

19.

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

Buddha

20.

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

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.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

Wilder, Thornton

23.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

24.

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

Bach, Richard

25.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

26.

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

27.

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

Hill, Napoleon

28.

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

Reade, Charles

29.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

30.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

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

32.

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

Rosten, Leo

33.

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

Gibbs, Joe

34.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

39.

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

40.

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

Rohn, Jim

41.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

42.

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

43.

The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

44.

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

Harvey, Paul

45.

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

Gillies, Jerry

46.

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

Ruskin, John

47.

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

Mother Teresa

48.

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

Buck, Glen

49.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

50.

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