Motivational Quotes

Joy

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

- Secker, Thomas

Best Quotes about Joy

1.

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.

2.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

3.

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

Bible

4.

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

5.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

6.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

7.

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

8.

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

9.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

10.

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

Graf, Steffi

11.

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

12.

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

Thomas Campbell

13.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

14.

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

15.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

16.

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

Reade, Charles

17.

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

Waitley, Denis

18.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Leacock, Stephen B.

19.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

Lawrence, Harding

21.

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

22.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

23.

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

Bradbury, Ray

24.

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

Talmud, The

25.

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

Hill, Napoleon

26.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

27.

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

Biondi, Matt

28.

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

Platen

29.

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

30.

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

Bach, Richard

31.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

32.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

34.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

35.

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

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.

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

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

Quarles, Francis

40.

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

Homoka, Oscar

41.

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.