Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

- Colgrove, Dr. Melba

Best Quotes about Joy

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Buck, Glen

4.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

5.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

6.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

7.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

8.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

9.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Repound, Renee

12.

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

Sarnoff, David

13.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

14.

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

15.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

16.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

17.

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

Biondi, Matt

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

21.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

22.

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

23.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

24.

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

Mother Teresa

25.

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

Harvey, Paul

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Thackeray, William M.

29.

It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

30.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Lewis, C. S.

33.

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

34.

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

Chuang Tzu

35.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

38.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

39.

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

Hill, Napoleon

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

45.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

46.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

47.

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

48.

You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Carnegie, Dale

49.

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.

50.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas