Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

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.

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

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

10.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

11.

If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

12.

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

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

Quarles, Francis

14.

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

15.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

16.

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

Bible

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The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.

Liebman, Joshua Loth

18.

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

19.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

20.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

21.

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

22.

Stukane, Eileen

23.

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

24.

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

Lawrence, Harding

25.

People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

Gibbs, Joe

26.

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

Carnegie, Dale

27.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

28.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

29.

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

30.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

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

Socrates

32.

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

33.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

Depew, Chauncey

36.

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

Bradbury, Ray

37.

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

38.

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

Bible

39.

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

41.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Fox, Matthew

44.

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

45.

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

46.

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

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

Graf, Steffi

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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

49.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Talmud, The