If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
—Ray Bradbury (b.1920) American Novelist, Short Story Writer
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
—Edmund Burke (1729–97) British Philosopher, Statesman
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 (1875–1940) American Engineer, Industrialist
Enjoy yourself—it’s later than you think.
—Chinese Proverb
Let all seen enjoyments lead to the unseen fountain from whence they flow.
—Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796–1865) Canadian Author, Humorist, Jurist
But the delights of solitude don’t only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.
—Anna Neagle (1904–86) English Actress
The New England conscience doesn’t keep you from doing what you shouldn’t—it just keeps you from enjoying it.
—Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–91) Polish-born American Writer, Novelist, Short Story Writer
There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life’s highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
—Soren Kierkegaard (1813–55) Danish Philosopher, Theologian
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–63) English Novelist
If you’ve enjoyed the dance, pay the musicians.
—German Proverb
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 (1921–89) American Motivational Speaker, Author
The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by coveting more.
—Common Proverb
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
—Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic
If you’ve enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you’ve really done pretty well.
—Unknown
The less you can enjoy, the poorer and scantier yourself; the more you can enjoy, the richer and more vigorous.
—Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) Swiss Theologian, Poet
Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.
—Pierre Beaumarchais (1732–99) French Inventor, Diplomat, Musician, Revolutionary
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 (1921–89) American Motivational Speaker, Author
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 (b.1933) English-born Writer, Novelist
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
—Norman O. Brown (1913–2002) American Social Philosopher, Writer
Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.
—Marshall Mcluhan (1911–80) Canadian Writer, Thinker, Educator
He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.
—Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) Swiss Theologian, Poet
Then I came in twice a week – for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece.
—Siobhan Davies (b.1950) British Choreographer
I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and more tempting. In like manner I make the most of my enjoyments; and though I do not cast my cares away, I pack them in as little compass as I can, and carry them as conveniently as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
—Robert South (1634–1716) English Theologian, Preacher
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than expectation.
—Owen Feltham (1602–68) English Essayist
I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
—Muriel Spark (1918–2006) Scottish Novelist, Short-story Writer, Poet
You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.
—Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American Self-Help Author
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 (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur
Gratitude is the memory of the heart; therefore forget not to say often, I have all I have ever enjoyed.
—Lydia Maria Child (1802–80) American Abolitionist, Writer
The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
—William Jennings Bryan (1860–1925) American Political Leader, Diplomat, Politician
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
—Yiddish Proverb
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