Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Joy

1.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

2.

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

3.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

4.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

5.

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

6.

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

7.

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

Sir Edward Dyer

8.

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Marden, Orison Swett

9.

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

10.

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

11.

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

12.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

14.

The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

15.

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

16.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

17.

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

Homoka, Oscar

18.

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

Sarnoff, David

19.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

20.

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

Carnegie, Dale

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Talmud, The

24.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

26.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

27.

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

Platen

28.

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

Hogan, Ben

29.

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

Lewis, C. S.

30.

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

Hill, Napoleon

31.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

32.

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

33.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

Wilder, Thornton

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

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

Rohn, Jim

37.

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

41.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

42.

Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Tourneur, Cyril

43.

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

44.

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

Waitley, Denis

45.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

46.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

47.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

48.

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

Biondi, Matt

49.

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

50.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen