Quotes about joy

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

— Greg Anderson

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

— Marcus Aurelius

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

— Richard Bach

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.

— M. Russell Ballard

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

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

— Matt Biondi

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

— Hugh Blair

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.

— Srully Blotnick

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

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Glen Buck

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

— Buddha

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

— Samuel Butler

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

— Eileen Caddy

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

— Dale Carnegie

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.

— Walter Chrysler

Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing.

— Bart Conner

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.

— Anthony J. D'Angelo

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

— Chauncey Depew

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

— Dale Earnhardt

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Matthew Fox

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

— Joe Gibbs

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

— Jerry Gillies

What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

— Jerry Gillies

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

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

— Paul Goodman

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

— Steffi Graf

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

— Katherine Graham

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

— Paul Harvey

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

— Katharine Hepburn

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

— Ben Hogan

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

— Oscar Homoka

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.

— Gordie Howe

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

— Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

— Michael Jordan

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

— H. Stanley Judd

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.

— Ken Keyes Jr.

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.

— Søren Kierkegaard

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

— Michael Korda

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

— Harding Lawrence

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.

— Stephen B. Leacock

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

— Michael Leboeuf

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

— Abraham Lincoln

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

— Helen Macinness

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.

— Wieder Marcia

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.

— Wieder Marcia

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.

— Orison Swett Marden

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

— Orison Swett Marden

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.

— Orison Swett Marden

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.

— Orison Swett Marden

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

— Orison Swett Marden

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.

— Harold V Melchert

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.

— Jack Nicklaus

Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

— Earl Nightingale

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.

— Earl Nightingale

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.

— Jesse Owens

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

— Francis Quarles

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

— Mary Caroline Richards

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

— Leo Rosten

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

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

— John Ruskin

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

— David Sarnoff

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.

— Charles M. Schwab

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.

— John Sculley

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

— Thomas Secker

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

— Florence Scovel Shinn

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

— Gerry Sikorski

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

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

— Socrates

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

— The Talmud

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

— William M. Thackeray

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

— Mark Twain

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.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

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

— Samuel Vauclain

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

— Denis Waitley

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

— Sir James M. Barrie

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Bible

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

— 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.

— William Blake

Joy runs deeper than despair

— Corrie Ten Boom

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

— Christian Nevell Bovee

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.

— Robert Browning

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?

— Tony Campolo

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

— Chuang Tzu

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

— Dr. Melba Colgrove

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

— Pierre Coneille

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

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.

— William Congreve

We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.

— R. W. Dale

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!

— Emily Dickinson

For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.

— John Dryden

All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it.

— Eugene Field