Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Vauclain, Samuel

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Repound, Renee

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

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Michel de Montaigne

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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.

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

12.

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

Reade, Charles

13.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

14.

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

Buck, Glen

15.

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

16.

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

Platen

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.

Howe, Gordie

19.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

20.

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

21.

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

Gillies, Jerry

22.

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

Rosten, Leo

23.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

24.

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

25.

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

26.

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

Anderson, Greg

27.

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

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

30.

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

Harvey, Paul

31.

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.

32.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

33.

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

Schwab, Charles M.

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Lewis, C. S.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

42.

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

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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

44.

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

45.

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

Graf, Steffi

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

49.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

50.

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.