Motivational Quotes

Joy

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

- Sikorski, Gerry

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Bible

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Buddha

10.

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

14.

It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

15.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

16.

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

Talmud, The

17.

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

18.

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

Thomas Campbell

19.

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

Biondi, Matt

20.

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

Lewis, C. S.

21.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

22.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

23.

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.

24.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

25.

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

Michel de Montaigne

26.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Socrates

30.

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

31.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

32.

'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

33.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

34.

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

Ruskin, John

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

38.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

39.

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

Buck, Glen

40.

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

Hogan, Ben

41.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

42.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

43.

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

44.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

45.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Bach, Richard

46.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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