Motivational Quotes

Joy

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

- Sikorski, Gerry

Best Quotes about Joy

1.

Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Harvey, Paul

2.

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

Fox, Matthew

3.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

4.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

5.

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

Reade, Charles

6.

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Richards, Mary Caroline

7.

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

8.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

9.

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

Chuang Tzu

10.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

11.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

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

Sarnoff, David

13.

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

14.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

20.

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

Socrates

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

24.

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

Homoka, Oscar

25.

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

26.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

27.

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

Lawrence, Harding

28.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

29.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

30.

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

31.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

32.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Hill, Napoleon

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

37.

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

Talmud, The

38.

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

Waitley, Denis

39.

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

Hogan, Ben

40.

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

Bradbury, Ray

41.

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

42.

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

43.

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

44.

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

Biondi, Matt

45.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

46.

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