Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Henry Ford‚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.
Bruno MarsHabit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
Aldous HuxleyHe who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLiving 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.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.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.‘
Dalai LamaMan needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand RussellThe 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.
Albert EinsteinThe totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.
Ronald ReaganI guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.
Lady GagaI 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.
Edmund HillaryMy whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.
DJ KhaledThe purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai LamaPeople take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
Albert CamusYour 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.
Steve JobsI 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.
Jocko WillinkI’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.
Nipsey HussleLife, if well lived, is long enough.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaLaziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
Anne FrankPleasure and action make the hours seem short.
William ShakespeareI love being in a courtroom.
Kamala HarrisI 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?
John RuskinBecoming 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.
Paul AusterBut 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.
Stephen KingIf 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.
Tom BradySuccess 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 HillNo man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Napoleon HillWhen 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 DyerI knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.
Bob UeckerLife 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.
F. Scott FitzgeraldAre 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.
Dale CarnegieIn 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.
Eleanor RooseveltOf 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.
Dolly PartonI’m a working-class person, working with class.
Karl LagerfeldGenerosity 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.
Jean-Paul SartreWork gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Stephen HawkingWhen 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.
Taylor SwiftIt’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.
Jordan PetersonWork is making a living out of being bored.
Karl LagerfeldThere’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.
Karl LagerfeldEnjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
Bertrand RussellEverything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.
Keanu ReevesMake crime pay. Become a lawyer.
Will RogersWealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Benjamin FranklinIt is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
Blaise PascalWhile 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.
Robert GreeneI think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we’re always trying to do better.
Steve JobsHowever 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.
Paulo CoelhoLife in abundance comes only through great love.
Elbert HubbardMeasures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
Mahatma GandhiI 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.
Steven WrightYou 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.
Robert GreeneMy 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.
Michelle ObamaI loved what I did. I could’ve been secretary of state for ever.
Madeleine AlbrightGod 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.
Mr. THappiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Fyodor DostoevskySatisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Arthur Schopenhauer