Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Buck, Glen

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Repound, Renee

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Chuang Tzu

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

10.

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

Rosten, Leo

11.

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

12.

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

Bradbury, Ray

13.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

17.

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.

18.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

19.

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

Caddy, Eileen

20.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

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

Hogan, Ben

22.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

23.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

24.

'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

25.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

26.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

27.

The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

28.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

29.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

30.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

31.

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.

32.

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

33.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

34.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

38.

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

39.

People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.

Sculley, John

40.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

41.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

Thomas Campbell

44.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

48.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

49.

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

50.

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