Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

- Wagner, Richard

Best Quotes about Joy

1.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

2.

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

Talmud, The

3.

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

Thomas Campbell

4.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

5.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

6.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

7.

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

8.

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

Sarnoff, David

9.

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

10.

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

Lawrence, Harding

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

14.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

15.

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

16.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

18.

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.

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.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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.

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

Bible

23.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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.

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

26.

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

Carnegie, Dale

27.

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

Depew, Chauncey

28.

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

29.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

30.

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

31.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

32.

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

Lewis, C. S.

33.

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

34.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

35.

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

Thackeray, William M.

36.

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.

37.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides