Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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.

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

Bible

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

Vauclain, Samuel

10.

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

Carnegie, Dale

11.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

12.

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

13.

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

Bach, Richard

14.

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

15.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

16.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

17.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

18.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

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

Gillies, Jerry

20.

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

Thomas Campbell

21.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

22.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

23.

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

Depew, Chauncey

24.

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

Lawrence, Harding

25.

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

Graham, Katherine

26.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

27.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

28.

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

Platen

29.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Caddy, Eileen

33.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

May, Rollo

34.

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

35.

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

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.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

38.

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

Reade, Charles

39.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

40.

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

41.

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

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.

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

Buck, Glen

44.

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

45.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

46.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

47.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

50.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese