Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

1.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

2.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

3.

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

Sarnoff, David

4.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

5.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

6.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

7.

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

8.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

9.

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

10.

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

Thomas Campbell

11.

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

Depew, Chauncey

12.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

13.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

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

Rohn, Jim

15.

If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

16.

'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

17.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

18.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

19.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

20.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

21.

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

22.

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

Chuang Tzu

23.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

24.

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

Harvey, Paul

25.

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

26.

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

Lewis, C. S.

27.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

29.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

30.

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.

31.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

32.

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

Hogan, Ben

33.

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

34.

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

Socrates

35.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

36.

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

37.

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

Michel de Montaigne

38.

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

Hill, Napoleon

39.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

40.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

41.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

42.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

43.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

44.

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

45.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

46.

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

Bradbury, Ray

47.

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

48.

Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

49.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

50.

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