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Quotes About Joy

These things I wish for you-tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.
~ Paul Harvey
Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
~ Edward Bernays
Where our work is, there let our joy be.
~ Tertullian
Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.
~ Thorstein Veblen
Oh how sweet to work for God all day, and then lie down at night beneath His smile.
~ Robert M
Play becomes joy, joy becomes work, work becomes play.
~ Johannes Itten
The best stuff in life isn't stuff at all... relationships, experiences & meaningful work are the staples of a happy life.
~ Graham Hill
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
~ George Santayana
What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
~ Oprah Winfrey
About my method of work: first it's the state of mind—Elation (joy).
~ Alexander Calder
I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.
~ Fred Astaire
Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.
~ Bliss Carman
The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're decorating cakes... That's the magic right there.
~ Duff Goldman
Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.
~ Ernie Banks
The opposite of play is not work. It's depression.
~ Brian Sutton-Smith
Fun is the most important. If you do stuff for money, it never works out.
~ Ina Garten
Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the pay is terrible, and the product, when it's finally finished, is pure joy.
~ Mary Lee Settle
Happy Thursday! Life at work and at home is so much HAPPIER when you speak and act with kindness!! Share a SMILE and make it a great day:)!
~ Tracey Edmonds
We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love.
~ Joshua Prager
I never practice; I always play.
~ Wanda Landowska
It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.
~ Jerome Lawrence
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
~ Letitia Landon
Establish a place of work where engineers can feel the joy of technological innovation, be aware of their mission to society and work to their heart's content.
~ Masaru Ibuka
Work like Hell. Share all you know. Abide by your handshake. Have fun.
~ Dan Geer