Motivational Quotes

Joy

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Joy

1.

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

2.

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

Reade, Charles

3.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

4.

Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.

Socrates

5.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

6.

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

7.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

8.

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

9.

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

Depew, Chauncey

10.

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

11.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

12.

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

13.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

14.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

15.

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

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

Mother Teresa

18.

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

Talmud, The

19.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

20.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

21.

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

22.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

23.

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

24.

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

Buck, Glen

25.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

26.

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

27.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

28.

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

Lawrence, Harding

29.

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

Bradbury, Ray

30.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

31.

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

Michel de Montaigne

32.

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Homoka, Oscar

36.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

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

Hill, Napoleon

38.

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

Rohn, Jim

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Graf, Steffi

42.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

43.

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

Bach, Richard

44.

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

45.

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

Graham, Katherine

46.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

47.

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

48.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

49.

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

Carnegie, Dale

50.

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.