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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Socrates

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

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

10.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

11.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

Reade, Charles

17.

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

Hill, Napoleon

18.

The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

19.

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

Hill, Napoleon

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

23.

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

24.

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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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

26.

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

27.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

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

Caddy, Eileen

29.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

30.

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

Chuang Tzu

31.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

32.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

33.

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

Rosten, Leo

34.

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.

35.

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

Gillies, Jerry

36.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Tourneur, Cyril

38.

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

Homoka, Oscar

39.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

40.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

41.

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Marden, Orison Swett

42.

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

43.

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

Ruskin, John

44.

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

Bach, Richard

45.

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

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

Platen

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The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

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

Waitley, Denis

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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