Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Tourneur, Cyril

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Socrates

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

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

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

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

10.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

12.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

13.

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

Harvey, Paul

14.

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

15.

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

Quarles, Francis

16.

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

Lawrence, Harding

17.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

18.

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

19.

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

20.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

21.

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.

22.

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

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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

24.

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

25.

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

Rosten, Leo

26.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

27.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

28.

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

29.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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 only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

32.

The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.

Liebman, Joshua Loth

33.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

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

35.

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

Homoka, Oscar

36.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

37.

'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Dickinson, Emily

38.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

39.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

42.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

43.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

45.

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.

46.

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

Caddy, Eileen

47.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

48.

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

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