Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Homoka, Oscar

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

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

Bible

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

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Gibbs, Joe

10.

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

Thackeray, William M.

11.

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

Mother Teresa

12.

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

Bradbury, Ray

13.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

15.

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

16.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

17.

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

18.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

19.

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

Gillies, Jerry

20.

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

Buck, Glen

21.

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

22.

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

Homoka, Oscar

23.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

24.

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

Carnegie, Dale

25.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

26.

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Nicklaus, Jack

27.

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

Depew, Chauncey

28.

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

Chuang Tzu

29.

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

Socrates

30.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

35.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

36.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Graham, Katherine

41.

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

Rosten, Leo

42.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

43.

For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.

Stukane, Eileen

44.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

45.

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

Reade, Charles

46.

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

47.

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

Hogan, Ben

48.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

49.

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

50.

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

Sir Edward Dyer