Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

Gibbs, Joe

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Quarles, Francis

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

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

11.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

12.

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

Reade, Charles

13.

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

Fox, Matthew

14.

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

Rosten, Leo

15.

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

Homoka, Oscar

16.

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

17.

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

18.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

Sir Edward Dyer

22.

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

Harvey, Paul

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.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

25.

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

Lawrence, Harding

26.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

27.

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

Mother Teresa

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

Platen

29.

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

Anderson, Greg

30.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

31.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

32.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

33.

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

34.

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

35.

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

Lewis, C. S.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

39.

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

Bach, Richard

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

43.

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

44.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

45.

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

Repound, Renee

46.

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

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