Enjoy Life Quotes

We sometimes need to be reminded how to slow down and enjoy life.  These Enjoyment Quotes should open your eyes and give you a lot to think about:

1. It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing. -Wieder Marcia

2. To love what you do and feel that it matters; how could anything be more fun? -Katherine Graham

3. Enjoy the journey, enjoy every moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing. -Matt Biondi

4. The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind. -Gail Sheehy

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

6. He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us. -Samuel Butler (1612-1680)  ???

7. Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it. -Julia Child (1912-2004)

8. Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey. -Harold V Melchert

9. 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 (1921-1989)

10. The best career advice given to the young… is “Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.” -Katharine Whitehorn

11. What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best which I believed then and believe now is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me. -Debbi Fields

12. The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing. -Winifred Holtby

13. I’m a firm believer in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don’t enjoy. -Jack Nicklaus

14. Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do. -Gerry Sikorski

15. Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it. -Marcia Wieder

16. The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their “Luck” arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed. -Srully Blotnick

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17. Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal. -Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

18. You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing. -Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924)

19. People are going to be most creative and productive when they’re doing something they’re really interested in. So having fun isn’t an outrageous idea at all. It’s a very sensible one. -John Sculley

20. Any talent that we are born with eventually surfaces as a need. -Marsha Sinetar

21. Men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself: “I am doing God’s will on earth.” -Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)

22. As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. -Ben Hogan (1912-1997)

23. 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

24. Follow what you love! Don’t deign to ask what “they” are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow not your interests, which change, but what you are and what you love, which will and should not change. -Georgie Anne Geyer

25. The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it. -Michael LeBoeuf

26. ***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

27. No man is a success in business unless he loves his work. -Florence Scovel Shinn (1876-1953)

28. The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it. -La Rochefoucauld

29. People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well. -Joe Gibbs

30. If you’re skilled, your wallet will be filled. -Yiddish Proverb

31. I have the feeling when I write poetry that I am doing what I am supposed to do. You don’t think about whether you’re going to get money or fame, you just do it. -Doris Lund

32. He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)

There are some great quotes here telling us we should enjoy what we’re doing.  Do YOU enjoy what you’re doing?  Why not?  If any of these quotes jump out at you, please leave a comment below.