Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Sir Edward Dyer

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Graf, Steffi

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

18.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

19.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

20.

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

Depew, Chauncey

21.

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

22.

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

27.

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

Carnegie, Dale

28.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

35.

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

Bradbury, Ray

36.

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

Sir Edward Dyer

37.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

38.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

39.

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.

40.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

41.

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

Reade, Charles

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

43.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

44.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

45.

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

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

47.

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

48.

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

Anderson, Greg

49.

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

Socrates

50.

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

Lawrence, Harding