I’ve enjoyed all the parts of my career.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

‚Nothin‘ on You‘ by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I’d been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

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

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life’s ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

I love being in a courtroom.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

Becoming a writer is not a ‚career decision‘ like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don’t choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you’re not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

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.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

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.

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

I’m a working-class person, working with class.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

When I’m getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

While still working for others, your goal at some point must be to carve out little areas that you can operate on your own, cultivating entrepreneurial skills.

I think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we’re always trying to do better.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I’m very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I’m feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It’s gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table – mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

I loved what I did. I could’ve been secretary of state for ever.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.