Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Caddy, Eileen

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Hogan, Ben

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

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

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

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

Reade, Charles

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

Fox, Matthew

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

10.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

11.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

12.

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

Ruskin, John

13.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

14.

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

Lewis, C. S.

15.

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

16.

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

Bradbury, Ray

17.

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

Gibbs, Joe

18.

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

Bach, Richard

19.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

20.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

21.

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

22.

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

25.

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

26.

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

Repound, Renee

27.

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

28.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

29.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

30.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Leacock, Stephen B.

31.

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

Hill, Napoleon

32.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

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

Bible

36.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

37.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Marden, Orison Swett

38.

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

Socrates

39.

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

40.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

41.

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

Hill, Napoleon

42.

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

Thackeray, William M.

43.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

44.

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

45.

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

Quarles, Francis

46.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

47.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

48.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

49.

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

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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