Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Buck, Glen

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

10.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

11.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

12.

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

13.

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?

Campolo, Tony

14.

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

Talmud, The

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

Thomas Campbell

18.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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.

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.

21.

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

22.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

23.

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

24.

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

29.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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.

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

32.

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

33.

I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

Keyes Jr., Ken

34.

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

35.

We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.

Repound, Renee

36.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Twain, Mark

37.

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

Bach, Richard

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

40.

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

Michel de Montaigne

41.

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

42.

The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.

Liebman, Joshua Loth

43.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

44.

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

Rohn, Jim

45.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

46.

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

47.

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

Hill, Napoleon

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Shaw, George Bernard