Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Best Quotes about Joy

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Gillies, Jerry

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

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

Chuang Tzu

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

Harvey, Paul

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

14.

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

Ruskin, John

15.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

16.

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

Rosten, Leo

17.

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

Quarles, Francis

18.

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

Carnegie, Dale

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Lawrence, Harding

23.

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

Socrates

24.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

25.

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

Caddy, Eileen

26.

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.

27.

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

Hill, Napoleon

28.

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

29.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

30.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

31.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

32.

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

33.

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

34.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

35.

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

36.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

37.

May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.

38.

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

39.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

40.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

41.

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

Graf, Steffi

42.

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

Thackeray, William M.

43.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

44.

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

Rohn, Jim

45.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

46.

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

47.

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

Repound, Renee

48.

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

Thomas Campbell

49.

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

50.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.