Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Homoka, Oscar

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

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

Reade, Charles

10.

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

Buddha

11.

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

12.

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

13.

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

14.

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

15.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

16.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

17.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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.

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

Repound, Renee

20.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

21.

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

Graham, Katherine

22.

Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Platen

23.

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

Thackeray, William M.

24.

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

25.

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

Rohn, Jim

26.

I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

27.

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

Thomas Campbell

28.

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

Sarnoff, David

29.

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

30.

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

Talmud, The

31.

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

32.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

33.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

34.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

35.

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

Lawrence, Harding

36.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

37.

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

Buck, Glen

38.

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

Hill, Napoleon

39.

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

40.

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

Hogan, Ben

41.

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

42.

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

Bach, Richard

43.

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

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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.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

46.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Mother Teresa

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Hill, Napoleon