Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Thomas Campbell

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

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

Socrates

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Leboeuf, Michael

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

Bach, Richard

10.

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

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

13.

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

14.

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

Sarnoff, David

15.

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.

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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

17.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

18.

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

19.

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

Biondi, Matt

20.

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

Lawrence, Harding

21.

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

22.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

23.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

24.

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

25.

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

Rosten, Leo

26.

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

27.

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

Lewis, C. S.

28.

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

Gillies, Jerry

29.

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

Platen

30.

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

31.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

32.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Caddy, Eileen

43.

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

Depew, Chauncey

44.

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

Hill, Napoleon

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Ruskin, John

48.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

49.

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

Thomas Campbell

50.

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