Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Leboeuf, Michael

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

Mother Teresa

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

Hubbard, Elbert

I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

Bible

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

10.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

11.

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

12.

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

13.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

14.

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

Michel de Montaigne

15.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

16.

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

Fox, Matthew

17.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

18.

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

19.

Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

20.

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

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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

22.

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

Gibbs, Joe

23.

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

Rosten, Leo

24.

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

25.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

26.

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

Hill, Napoleon

27.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

28.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

29.

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

30.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

31.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

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

Rohn, Jim

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

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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

38.

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

Graf, Steffi

39.

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

40.

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

Biondi, Matt

41.

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

Thackeray, William M.

42.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

43.

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

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

Graham, Katherine

45.

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

Anderson, Greg

46.

The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

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

Carnegie, Dale

48.

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

Talmud, The

49.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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