Motivational Quotes

Joy

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Joy

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

4.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

5.

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

6.

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

Bach, Richard

7.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

8.

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

9.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

10.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

11.

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

Carnegie, Dale

12.

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

Hill, Napoleon

13.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

14.

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

15.

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

Gibbs, Joe

16.

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

Rosten, Leo

17.

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

Graham, Katherine

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Platen

22.

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

23.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

24.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

26.

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.

27.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

28.

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

29.

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

Bradbury, Ray

30.

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

31.

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

Talmud, The

32.

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

Hill, Napoleon

33.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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.

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

Quarles, Francis

36.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

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

Michel de Montaigne

38.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

39.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Twain, Mark

40.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

41.

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

42.

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

Lewis, C. S.

43.

The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.

Liebman, Joshua Loth

44.

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

Rohn, Jim

45.

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

Repound, Renee

46.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.