Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Bible

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

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Homoka, Oscar

12.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

13.

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

Graf, Steffi

14.

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

15.

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

Talmud, The

16.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

17.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

18.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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

Fox, Matthew

20.

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

Bach, Richard

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

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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

24.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

28.

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

Mother Teresa

29.

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

Sarnoff, David

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.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

32.

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.

33.

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

Michel de Montaigne

34.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

35.

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

36.

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Phil Jackson

37.

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.

38.

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

Waitley, Denis

39.

The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell

40.

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

Repound, Renee

41.

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

42.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

43.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

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

Rosten, Leo

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