Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

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

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

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

Leboeuf, Michael

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

10.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

11.

I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

Bible

12.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

13.

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

14.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

15.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

16.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

22.

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.

23.

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

Reade, Charles

24.

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

25.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

26.

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

Graf, Steffi

27.

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.

28.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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.

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Marden, Orison Swett

31.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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 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.

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

35.

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

36.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

37.

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

Fox, Matthew

38.

Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

Sarnoff, David

39.

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

Harvey, Paul

40.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

41.

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

42.

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

Quarles, Francis

43.

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

44.

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

Thomas Campbell

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

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

Depew, Chauncey

47.

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

48.

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

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Hill, Napoleon