Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Fox, Matthew

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Socrates

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

11.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

12.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

16.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

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

Graham, Katherine

18.

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

Buddha

19.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

20.

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

Buck, Glen

21.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

22.

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

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.

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

Fox, Matthew

25.

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

26.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

27.

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

28.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

29.

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

30.

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Blotnick, Srully

31.

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

32.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

33.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

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

Reade, Charles

35.

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

36.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

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

Thomas Campbell

38.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

39.

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

Rosten, Leo

40.

A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.

41.

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

42.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

43.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

44.

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.

45.

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

Sarnoff, David

46.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

47.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

48.

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

Anderson, Greg

49.

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

50.

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

Ruskin, John