Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Joy

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

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

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

10.

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

Bible

11.

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.

12.

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

Quarles, Francis

13.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

14.

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

15.

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

Sarnoff, David

16.

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

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

19.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

20.

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

Socrates

21.

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

Lewis, C. S.

22.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

24.

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

25.

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

Bradbury, Ray

26.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

28.

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Blotnick, Srully

29.

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

Talmud, The

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.

'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

32.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

33.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Depew, Chauncey

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

46.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

47.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

48.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

49.

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

50.

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