Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Stanislaw J. Lec

Best Quotes about Joy

1.

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

Michel de Montaigne

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

6.

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

7.

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

Chuang Tzu

8.

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

Biondi, Matt

9.

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

10.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

11.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

12.

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

Buddha

13.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

14.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

15.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

16.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

17.

You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Earnhardt, Dale

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Graf, Steffi

22.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

23.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

24.

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

25.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

26.

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.

27.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

28.

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

Harvey, Paul

29.

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

30.

The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

34.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

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

Lawrence, Harding

37.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

38.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

40.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

41.

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

42.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

44.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

45.

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

46.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

47.

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

Lewis, C. S.

48.

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

49.

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