Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Talmud, The

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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.

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Hogan, Ben

10.

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

11.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

12.

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

Biondi, Matt

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Chuang Tzu

17.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

18.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

Mother Teresa

19.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

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

Ruskin, John

21.

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

22.

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Lawrence, Harding

24.

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

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

26.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Quarles, Francis

28.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

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

Lewis, C. S.

30.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

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

32.

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

Platen

33.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

34.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

35.

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

Socrates

36.

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

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Sarnoff, David

39.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

40.

He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.

Blake, William

41.

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

Hill, Napoleon

42.

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

Sir Edward Dyer

43.

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

44.

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

45.

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

Bach, Richard

46.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

47.

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

Repound, Renee

48.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

49.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

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