Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

Repound, Renee

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

Sarnoff, David

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Homoka, Oscar

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.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

14.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

15.

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

Hill, Napoleon

16.

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

Bradbury, Ray

17.

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

Chuang Tzu

18.

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

19.

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

Harvey, Paul

20.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

21.

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

22.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

23.

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

Thackeray, William M.

24.

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.

25.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

26.

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

27.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

28.

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

29.

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

Depew, Chauncey

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

36.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

37.

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

Waitley, Denis

38.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

39.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

40.

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

Graham, Katherine

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

45.

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.

46.

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

Talmud, The

47.

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

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'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

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

Reade, Charles

50.

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