Motivational Quotes

Joy

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

- Wilder, Thornton

Best Quotes about Joy

1.

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

2.

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

Gibbs, Joe

3.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

4.

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

Bradbury, Ray

5.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

6.

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

7.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

8.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

9.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

10.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

11.

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

Thomas Campbell

12.

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

Fox, Matthew

13.

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

14.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

15.

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

16.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

17.

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

18.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

19.

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

Talmud, The

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

23.

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

Chuang Tzu

24.

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.

25.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

26.

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

27.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

28.

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

Gillies, Jerry

29.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Hill, Napoleon

30.

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

31.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

32.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

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

34.

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

Harvey, Paul

35.

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

Carnegie, Dale

36.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

37.

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

Anderson, Greg

38.

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

39.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

40.

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

Rohn, Jim

41.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

46.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

47.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

48.

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

Quarles, Francis

49.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

50.

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