Motivational Quotes

Joy

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Reade, Charles

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

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Caddy, Eileen

Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

10.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

11.

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

12.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Twain, Mark

13.

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

14.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

15.

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Nightingale, Earl

16.

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

Michel de Montaigne

17.

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

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.

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

20.

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

21.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

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

Platen

32.

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

Homoka, Oscar

33.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

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

Rosten, Leo

35.

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

Talmud, The

36.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

37.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

38.

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

39.

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

Harvey, Paul

40.

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

Hill, Napoleon

41.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

42.

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

Rohn, Jim

43.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

44.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

45.

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

46.

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! [Philippians 4:4]

Bible

47.

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

Thomas Campbell

48.

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

49.

People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

Gibbs, Joe

50.

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