Motivational Quotes

Joy

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

- Bach, Richard

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

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

Sarnoff, David

10.

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Richards, Mary Caroline

11.

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

Buck, Glen

12.

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

13.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Nicklaus, Jack

15.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

16.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Bach, Richard

17.

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

18.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

19.

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

Homoka, Oscar

20.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

21.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

22.

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

23.

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

24.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

25.

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

26.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

27.

'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

28.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

29.

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

Graf, Steffi

30.

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

31.

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

Lewis, C. S.

32.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Fox, Matthew

35.

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

Gillies, Jerry

36.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

37.

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

Rosten, Leo

38.

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

Bible

39.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Hill, Napoleon

40.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

41.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

42.

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

43.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

44.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Hill, Napoleon

49.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

Wilder, Thornton

50.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec