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

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Tourneur, Cyril

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

13.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

14.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

18.

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

19.

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

Talmud, The

20.

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

21.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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

23.

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

Homoka, Oscar

24.

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.

25.

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

Sir Edward Dyer

26.

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

Rohn, Jim

27.

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

28.

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

29.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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.

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

Waitley, Denis

32.

Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.

Judd, H. Stanley

33.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

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

Thomas Campbell

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

Quarles, Francis

37.

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Richards, Mary Caroline

38.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

39.

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

40.

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

Lawrence, Harding

41.

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

42.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

43.

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

Hill, Napoleon

44.

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

Socrates

45.

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

46.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

47.

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

Hill, Napoleon

48.

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

49.

The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.