Motivational Quotes

Joy

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

- Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

Best Quotes about Joy

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Hill, Napoleon

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

10.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Confucius

11.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

12.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

13.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

14.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

15.

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

16.

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Marden, Orison Swett

17.

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

Thackeray, William M.

18.

I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

19.

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.

20.

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

Platen

21.

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

22.

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

Repound, Renee

23.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

24.

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

25.

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

Hill, Napoleon

26.

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Sarnoff, David

30.

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

31.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Bach, Richard

32.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

33.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

34.

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

Talmud, The

35.

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

Bradbury, Ray

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Gillies, Jerry

39.

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

40.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

41.

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

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.

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

Reade, Charles

44.

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.

45.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Earnhardt, Dale