Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Sir Edward Dyer

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

Reade, Charles

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

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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 sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

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

William Shakespeare

10.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katharine

11.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

Ruskin, John

13.

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

Thomas Campbell

14.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

15.

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

Bach, Richard

16.

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

Bible

17.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

18.

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

Gillies, Jerry

19.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

20.

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

Rohn, Jim

21.

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

Harvey, Paul

22.

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

23.

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

Platen

24.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

25.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

28.

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

Bradbury, Ray

29.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

30.

I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

Bible

31.

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

Graham, Katherine

32.

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

Gibbs, Joe

33.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

34.

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

Michel de Montaigne

35.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Biondi, Matt

39.

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

Talmud, The

40.

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

41.

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

Lawrence, Harding

42.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

43.

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

Depew, Chauncey

44.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

45.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

46.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

47.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba