Motivational Quotes

Joy

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.

Best Quotes about Joy

1.

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

Rosten, Leo

2.

Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

3.

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

Repound, Renee

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

10.

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

11.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

12.

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.

13.

'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

14.

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

15.

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

16.

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

17.

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

Lawrence, Harding

18.

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

Platen

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Chuang Tzu

22.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

23.

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

24.

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

Harvey, Paul

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

27.

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

Bradbury, Ray

28.

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Ruskin, John

30.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

31.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Graf, Steffi

35.

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

Gibbs, Joe

36.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

40.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

41.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

42.

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

Hogan, Ben

43.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

44.

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

Homoka, Oscar

45.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

46.

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

47.

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

48.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

49.

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

Hill, Napoleon

50.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese