Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Sarnoff, David

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Michel de Montaigne

'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

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

Rosten, Leo

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

10.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

11.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

12.

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

Thackeray, William M.

13.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

16.

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

Socrates

17.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

18.

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

29.

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

30.

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Marden, Orison Swett

31.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

32.

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

33.

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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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

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

Judd, H. Stanley

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! [Philippians 4:4]

Bible

39.

Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

40.

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

Hogan, Ben

41.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

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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

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

Platen

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

Talmud, The

45.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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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.