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

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

Graf, Steffi

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.

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

Lawrence, Harding

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

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

Buck, Glen

Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Tourneur, Cyril

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

For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.

Stukane, Eileen

10.

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Socrates

12.

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

13.

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

14.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

15.

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

Gillies, Jerry

16.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

17.

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

18.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

19.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

20.

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

21.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

22.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Confucius

23.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

24.

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

25.

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

Platen

26.

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

27.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

Repound, Renee

29.

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

30.

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

31.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

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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

38.

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

Bach, Richard

39.

I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

40.

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

Biondi, Matt

41.

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

42.

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

Hill, Napoleon

43.

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

Thackeray, William M.

44.

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

45.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

46.

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

47.

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

48.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

49.

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

Rosten, Leo

50.

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