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

Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

Sarnoff, David

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

Rosten, Leo

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Chuang Tzu

'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

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

Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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.

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

11.

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

Buck, Glen

12.

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

Lawrence, Harding

13.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

14.

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

15.

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

16.

We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.

Repound, Renee

17.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

18.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

19.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

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

Socrates

21.

The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.

22.

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

Bible

23.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

24.

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

Reade, Charles

25.

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

Bible

26.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

27.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

28.

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

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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

30.

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

31.

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

Graf, Steffi

32.

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

Talmud, The

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Fox, Matthew

36.

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

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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

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

40.

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

Quarles, Francis

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To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?