Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Best Quotes about Joy

The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

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

If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

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

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

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

Hogan, Ben

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

10.

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

Thackeray, William M.

11.

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

Quarles, Francis

12.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

13.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

15.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

16.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

17.

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

Graf, Steffi

18.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Waitley, Denis

22.

'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

23.

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.

24.

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

25.

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

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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

27.

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

Reade, Charles

28.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

29.

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

Sir Edward Dyer

30.

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

31.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

32.

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

Bach, Richard

33.

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

34.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

35.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

36.

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

37.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

38.

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

Lewis, C. S.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

43.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

44.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

45.

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

Homoka, Oscar

46.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.