Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Leboeuf, Michael

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Biondi, Matt

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

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

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Harvey, Paul

10.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

11.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

12.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

13.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

14.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

15.

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

Talmud, The

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Fox, Matthew

18.

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

19.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

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

Thomas Campbell

27.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

28.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

29.

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

30.

I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Buck, Glen

33.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

37.

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

38.

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

Ruskin, John

39.

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.

40.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katharine

41.

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

Bible

42.

Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Platen

43.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

44.

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

45.

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.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

47.

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

48.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

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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]