ENJOYMENT
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(838 votes) People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
(582 votes) Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher
(477 votes) He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
(451 votes) 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
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
(444 votes) 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
Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
(418 votes) If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
Buddha
Buddha
568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism
(396 votes) If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.
Source Unknown
Source Unknown
(389 votes) I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.
Source Unknown
Source Unknown
(370 votes) Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan
1963-, American Basketball Player, Actor
(358 votes) A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.
The Talmud
The Talmud
BC 500?-400? AD, Jewish Archive of Oral Tradition
(353 votes) When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
William M. Thackeray
William M. Thackeray
1811-1863, Indian-born British Novelist
(346 votes) 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
Wieder Marcia
American Author, Speaker
(329 votes) Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.
Matthew Fox
Matthew Fox
(328 votes) 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
Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine
(305 votes) 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
Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
(297 votes) 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
Bart Conner
American Gymnast
(291 votes) 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
John Sculley
American Businessman, Former Chairman of Apple Computer
(286 votes) If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.
Glen Buck
Glen Buck
(276 votes) The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
1904-1991, Polish-born American Journalist, Writer
(270 votes) 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
M. Russell Ballard
1928, American Missionary, Bishop,
(268 votes) 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
Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine
(266 votes) Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.
H. Stanley Judd
H. Stanley Judd
American Author
(263 votes) As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.
Steffi Graf
Steffi Graf
1969-, German Tennis Player
(254 votes) Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.
Matt Biondi
Matt Biondi
American Swimmer
(247 votes) 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.
Ken Keyes Jr.
1921-1995, American Author
(234 votes) Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.
Socrates
Socrates
BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens
(231 votes) 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
Srully Blotnick
American Psychologist, Author
(227 votes) 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
Source Unknown
(225 votes) 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
Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine
(221 votes) Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.
Harding Lawrence
Harding Lawrence
(216 votes) True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
1767-1835, German Statesman, Philologist
(215 votes) If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.
Samuel Vauclain
Samuel Vauclain
1856-1940, American Engineer, Inventor
(209 votes) 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
Wieder Marcia
American Author, Speaker
(205 votes) 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
Jesse Owens
1913-1980, American Olympic Track Athlete
(205 votes) I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau
1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist
(205 votes) It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
Orison Swett Marden
Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine
(201 votes) 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
Harold V Melchert
(199 votes) 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
Charles M. Schwab
1862-1939, American Industrialist, Businessman
(192 votes) 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
Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine
(190 votes) To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.
Oscar Homoka
Oscar Homoka
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