Motivational Quotes

Joy

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

- Sikorski, Gerry

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Hepburn, Katharine

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell

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

Hogan, Ben

10.

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

Biondi, Matt

11.

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

12.

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

Bradbury, Ray

13.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

14.

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

15.

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

16.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

17.

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

Hill, Napoleon

18.

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

Harvey, Paul

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Gibbs, Joe

22.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

23.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Michel de Montaigne

27.

'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

28.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

29.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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

Rosten, Leo

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Lewis, C. S.

35.

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

36.

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

Bach, Richard

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.

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

39.

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

Ruskin, John

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

43.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

44.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

45.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

46.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

47.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

48.

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

Graf, Steffi

49.

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

Buck, Glen

50.

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