Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Thackeray, William M.

Best Quotes about Joy

1.

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

Harvey, Paul

2.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

3.

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

Bible

4.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

5.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

6.

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

Talmud, The

7.

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

8.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

9.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

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

Repound, Renee

11.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

12.

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

13.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

14.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

15.

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

Anderson, Greg

16.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

17.

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

Homoka, Oscar

18.

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

Socrates

19.

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

20.

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

Depew, Chauncey

21.

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

Quarles, Francis

22.

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

23.

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

24.

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

Buck, Glen

25.

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

Fox, Matthew

26.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

27.

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

Ruskin, John

28.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

32.

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

33.

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

34.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

35.

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

Chuang Tzu

36.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

37.

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

38.

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

Rohn, Jim

39.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

40.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Marden, Orison Swett

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

44.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

45.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

46.

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

Bradbury, Ray

47.

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

Hill, Napoleon

48.

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

Lawrence, Harding

49.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

50.

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