Motivational Quotes

Joy

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Joy

A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.

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

Rosten, Leo

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

10.

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

11.

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

Thackeray, William M.

12.

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

Depew, Chauncey

13.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

14.

'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Dickinson, Emily

15.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

16.

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

Thomas Campbell

17.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec

18.

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

Carnegie, Dale

19.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

20.

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

Bradbury, Ray

21.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

22.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

23.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

24.

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

25.

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

Fox, Matthew

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

29.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

30.

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

31.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Michel de Montaigne

34.

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

35.

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

Lawrence, Harding

36.

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

Chuang Tzu

37.

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

38.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

39.

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

Harvey, Paul

40.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Vauclain, Samuel

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

45.

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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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

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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.

48.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

49.

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

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

Anderson, Greg