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

1.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

2.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

3.

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.

4.

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

5.

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

Talmud, The

6.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

7.

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.

8.

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

Graham, Katherine

9.

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

Ruskin, John

10.

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

11.

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

Thackeray, William M.

12.

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

13.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

14.

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

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

17.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

18.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

19.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

20.

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

21.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

22.

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

23.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

27.

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

Bible

28.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

29.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

30.

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

31.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

32.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

33.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

34.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.