Enjoyment Quotes - Page 2

• The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• Consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing

  Bart Conner

  Inspiration, Achievement, Consistent

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• Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.

  Arnold Palmer

  Capacity, Concentration, Urges

  Arnold Palmer (1970). “Situation golf”

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• The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

  Joseph Addison

  Friendship, Real Friends, Secret

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• I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to facing Brett Lee again. He bowls at 95mph so enjoyment is not the word I would use.

  Andrew Flintoff

  Use, Looking Forward, Not Sure

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• 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.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Death, Struggle, Men

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

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Change, Happy, Moving

  "Unkempt Thoughts". Book by Stanisław Jerzy Lec, translated by Jacek Galazka, 1962.

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• My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

  Thornton Wilder

  Happiness, Laughter, Acceptance

  1942 The Skin of Our Teeth, act 1.

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• to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

  Fanny Burney

  Expectations, Increase, Diminish

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.32, Delphi Classics

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• Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

  Thomas Otway

  Philosophy, Ambition, Lust

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• All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

  Francois Fenelon

  Spiritual, Expectations, Fruition

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• It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Birthday, Getting Older

  "Mark Twain's Letters".

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• Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

  Samuel Johnson

  Progress, Desire, Want

  Samuel Johnson (1798). “Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.230

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  It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Mathematics, Mathematical, Possession

  Letter to Farkas Bolyai, September 02, 1808.

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Eulogy, Done

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• I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

  Maria Mitchell

  Stars, Color, Space

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

  Norman O. Brown

  Dynamics, Capitalism, Postponement

  Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.273, Wesleyan University Press

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

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Romantic, Thinking, Looks

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• Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you to add something to the pleasure of others, or to diminish something of their pains. And for every grain of enjoyment you sow in the bosom of another, you shall find a harvest in your own bosom; while every sorrow which you pluck out from the thoughts and feelings of a fellow creature shall be replaced by beautiful peace and joy in the sanctuary of your soul.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Beautiful, Pain, Joy

  "Will this man make you happy?" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2008.

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  A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

  Chuck Noll

  Motivational Sports, Athlete, Frustration

  "Chuck Noll, Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers coach, dies at 82", www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2014.

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• I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

  Muriel Spark

  Voice, Sound, Quiet

  Muriel Spark (2001). “Loitering with Intent”, p.80, New Directions Publishing

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• Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

  Novalis

  Literature, Height

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• The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

  Aleister Crowley

  Life, Mistake, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Men, Business Success

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much Mor”, p.67, Hampton Roads Publishing

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