Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

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

Anderson, Greg

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

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

10.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

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

Reade, Charles

12.

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

Depew, Chauncey

13.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

14.

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

15.

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

Carnegie, Dale

16.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

17.

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

18.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

19.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

20.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

21.

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

Gibbs, Joe

22.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

23.

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

Harvey, Paul

24.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

25.

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

26.

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

Michel de Montaigne

27.

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

28.

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

Thackeray, William M.

29.

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

Socrates

30.

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

Bach, Richard

31.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

32.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

33.

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

34.

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

35.

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

Bradbury, Ray

36.

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

37.

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

Mother Teresa

38.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

39.

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

Gillies, Jerry

40.

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

Repound, Renee

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Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

43.

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Marden, Orison Swett

44.

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.

45.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

46.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

50.

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