Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Quarles, Francis

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

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

Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

Browning, Robert

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

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

10.

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

11.

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

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.

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

Talmud, The

14.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

15.

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

Ruskin, John

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

19.

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

20.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

21.

I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

Keyes Jr., Ken

22.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

23.

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

Biondi, Matt

24.

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

25.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

26.

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

Hogan, Ben

27.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

28.

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

Lewis, C. S.

29.

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

Graham, Katherine

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

33.

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

Bible

34.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

35.

'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Dickinson, Emily

36.

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

37.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

38.

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

Platen

39.

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

Sir Edward Dyer

40.

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

Waitley, Denis

42.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

43.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

44.

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

Rosten, Leo

45.

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

Gibbs, Joe

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.

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

Depew, Chauncey

48.

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

49.

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

Carnegie, Dale

50.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese