Enjoyment Quotes - Page 6

• The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Happiness, Success

  'Die fröhliche Wissenschaft' (1882) bk. 4, sect. 283

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• [Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Taken, Moving, Journey

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen”, p.3, Elizabeth von Arnim

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• People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.

  Ian Rush

  Football, Play, Long

  Interview with Simon Burnton, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2011.

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• I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

  David Rockefeller

  Art, Creativity, Thinking

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

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

  Leo Rosten

  Enjoy, Ifs

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

  Orison Swett Marden

  Purpose, Wells

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Patterns, Recognition

  Dialogues (1954) (entry for 10 June 1943)

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• Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

  Napoleon Hill

  Happiness, Success, Peace

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.475, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Strong, Successful, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success”, p.255, e-artnow

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• A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

  Martial

  Life, Past, Men

  "Epigrams" (c. 80-104 AD), X. 23. 7 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

  Gerry Sikorski

  Inspirational, Determination, Joy

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• The attraction of snowboarding is the freedom it gives you. With a snowboard on your feet the sky is the limit. You can do anything and go anywhere. This is not just for pro riders. It is for everyone.
  The other amazing thing with snowboarding is how easy it is to get away from people and enjoy the solitude of the mountains. Its almost impossible in surfing but with snowboarding it is a short hike from the top of the lift or the side of the road.

  Jeremy Jones

  Freedom, Sky, Feet

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

  Ben Hogan

  Inspirational, Sports, Friday

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• It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

  Samuel Alexander

  Phrases, May, Lasts

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• Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

  Aldous Huxley

  Luxury, Literature, Dull

  "Point Counter Point". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 17, 1928.

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• You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Travel, Flower

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.1321, Delphi Classics

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• This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Pride, Awards, Joy

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• The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.

  James Loeb

  Teaching, School, Past

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• It's difficult to excel at something you don't truly enjoy.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Enjoy, Difficult, Golf Life

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• He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Enjoy

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

  Richard Rogers

  Believe, Passion, People

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  When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Oct 05, 2011

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• Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

  Joseph Butler

  Passion, Satisfaction, Affection

  Joseph Butler, Stephen L. Darwall (1983). “Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue”, p.48, Hackett Publishing

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