Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Gillies, Jerry

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Buck, Glen

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

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

Sir Edward Dyer

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

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

Anderson, Greg

10.

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

11.

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

Hill, Napoleon

12.

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

Platen

13.

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

Carnegie, Dale

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Homoka, Oscar

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

20.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

21.

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

22.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

23.

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

Socrates

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Hill, Napoleon

26.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

27.

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

28.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

29.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

30.

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

31.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

35.

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.

36.

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

Rohn, Jim

37.

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

Gibbs, Joe

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

40.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

41.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katharine

42.

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

Graf, Steffi

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

46.

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

Reade, Charles

47.

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

Lawrence, Harding

48.

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

49.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

50.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides