Welcome to a delightful exploration of the essence of enjoyment! In the tapestry of human experience, moments of pure joy and pleasure add vibrant colors that enrich our lives. Whether it’s savoring the simple pleasures of a serene sunset, losing ourselves in the melodies of our favorite music, or relishing the company of loved ones, enjoyment encapsulates the beauty of being alive.
In this curated collection of enjoyment quotes, we invite you to immerse yourself in the wisdom and insights shared by thinkers, artists, and visionaries throughout history. These quotes serve as gentle reminders of the importance of embracing the present moment and finding joy in the little things that surround us. As you peruse these words of wisdom, may you find inspiration to cultivate more moments of enjoyment in your own life, enriching your journey with laughter, gratitude, and a deeper appreciation for the wonders of existence. Without further ado, let the exploration of enjoyment begin!
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. Edmund Burke
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. Alfred North Whitehead
Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. Marshall McLuhan
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Cesare Pavese
The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment. Ivor Novello
Bam understands the concept of a team and bringing out more out of somebody else, and he finds enjoyment and pride out of making somebody else better. Erik Spoelstra
Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse. Samuel Alexander
I had actually been going to Hawaii for quite a while before I ever picked up the uke. I think with anything new you’re going to get more enjoyment out of it if it comes to you quickly, and the uke facilitates that. Eddie Vedder
The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something. Chauncey Depew
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. Francois Fenelon
Laws are the terms by which independent and isolated men united to form a society, once they tired of living in a perpetual state of war where the enjoyment of liberty was rendered useless by the uncertainty of its preservation. They sacrificed a portion of this liberty so that they could enjoy the remainder in security and peace. Cesare Beccaria
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. Theodore Roosevelt
Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man. Hugh Blair
I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment. Maria Mitchell
The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment. William Jennings Bryan
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. Samuel Johnson
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. Jane Austen
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment. Walter Bagehot
I grew up in the Great Depression, and the jazz artists and Dixieland musicians were at the core of our communications and enjoyment. They were not passing fancies. They are something that is, and will be, listened to again and again. I have a space of reverence for some of those old jazz stars such as Sydney Bechet and Louis Armstrong. Harry Belafonte
It’s a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I’d rather not know. Linda Ronstadt
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
Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation and your enjoyment in being a lawyer. Joe Jamail
I do not believe that God has created us under this dire necessity to toil, like beasts, to sustain life. I believe it is his will that we should hold absolute mastery over time, so as to devote it mainly to intellectual and moral improvement, domestic enjoyment, and social intercourse. William Lloyd Garrison
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
It’s great to compose music just for my own enjoyment, but that I have been able to make a lot of new friends, have shows everywhere, and get to know so many places all thanks to music is impressive to me. Natalia Lafourcade
I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment. David Rockefeller
It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer. George Muller
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction. Mortimer Adler
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
I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death! Anne Frank
Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle. Mason Cooley
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. Bertrand Russell
Extreme poverty threatens people’s right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life. Daisaku Ikeda
It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot. Susan B. Anthony
I’d rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What’s the good of living if you can’t have the things that give a little enjoyment? Jack LaLanne
We all say we enjoy playing rugby, but most guys don’t really show it – and some guys I don’t think actually enjoy it. So every time I arrive in the morning, I’ve always got a smile on my face. Once I lose that enjoyment, I will stop playing. Faf de Klerk
What young men nowadays don’t realise is that ballroom dancing can be such a source of enjoyment. Brian Clough
There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life’s highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death. Soren Kierkegaard
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment. Frances Burney
Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself. Michael Bolton
Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment. Arnold Palmer
I love race car drivers, I love gymnastics, I love UFC, I love police officers, I love firefighters. I just try to give them the same enjoyment they give me. Shaquille O’Neal
One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains. Laurence D. Fink
To sing a duet together means sharing with someone both the pleasure and the responsibility of making music for an audience which is there to feel enjoyment through music. Andrea Bocelli
The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments. Benjamin Disraeli
Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just waiting to burst out. Michael Sheen
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I don’t live in the past. I just live in the enjoyment of the game. Joe Montana
I’m always very fearful when academics get ahold of comedy. Comedy is such a clear thing – people laugh, or they don’t laugh. It’s involuntary. I’m not saying it can’t be scrutinized, it’s just that they take the enjoyment out of it. Lorne Michaels
Football is not about suffering. It’s about enjoyment. Control the ball, be friendly with it, try to attack, try to score goals. Of course defending is part of it, but you can defend in a lot of ways. Johan Cruyff
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. DeWitt Clinton
If golf wasn’t enjoyable and there wasn’t a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it. Ray Romano
Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth. Giovanni Boccaccio
I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it’s more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics. Leonard Susskind
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. Horace Mann
I can’t say that every day is wonderful bliss and enjoyment. Albert II, Prince of Monaco
Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion – it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours. Robert Toombs
If you desire something, you don’t have it. It is more interesting than enjoyment, because enjoyment erases the mysteries and the vision of desire. Desire opens up possibilities but never achieves anything, whereas enjoyment is just the brutal achievement of something – and after that, it’s done. Luca Guadagnino
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire. Epictetus
If the lecture is good, then everything is too smooth. That’s the same in music: if the performance is too good, you really don’t enjoy it, because it just goes by, and you can never penetrate into the heart of it. Sometimes a poor performance is better for enjoyment, because you can look at those things that were wrong and analyze them. Werner Heisenberg
He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love. Johann Kaspar Lavater
I’m a normal girl. I don’t go out much, and I don’t know what is enjoyment. Saina Nehwal
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production. Zygmunt Bauman
Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it’s true, it’s very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say… it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something. Mark Rylance
I quit because I didn’t feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game. Barry Sanders
I’m wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It’s a real enjoyment. David Bowie
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? John Ruskin
I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community. George Bernard Shaw
Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part. Claude Debussy
But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity. Niklaus Wirth
What I remember most about the ‘Road’ movies is my enjoyment at watching the two characters sparring with each other. But more important than that was my feeling that Hope and Crosby were enjoying the sparring, too. Frank Oz
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
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
I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work. Muriel Spark
Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is. Daniel Boone
Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit. John C. Maxwell
I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous. Edmund Hillary
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. Thomas Otway
It’s obvious that I’d like to keep the captain’s armband. The job gives me a great deal of enjoyment. Why should I then give it up by choice? Philipp Lahm
With my human rights advocacy, that’s always been through my writing. I’ve always tried to write articles and contribute to journals and a lot of online journals – about human rights, especially Palestinian human rights. I find the time to do things to do things I’m passionate about, because I find enjoyment in them. I just have to juggle. Randa Abdel-Fattah
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
The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society. Marquis de Lafayette
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. Joseph Addison
It is a religious duty for those who cook to learn how to prepare food in different ways, hygienically, for the table, so that it may be eaten with enjoyment. Ellen G. White
A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning. Chuck Noll
What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That’s not a smile. Jack Kevorkian
The Gen. Commanding, takes this means of informing the people that he has not come among them to disturb them in the enjoyment of their rights, either of person or property. John Hunt Morgan
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future. Norman O. Brown
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. Walter Benjamin
Football puts everything at your fingertips. And I was raised in a way that focused everything on looking after your family. Faith really helped me realise that the temptations that you have on hand will give you joy, enjoyment, whatever, but only for a short while. And after that, it is all gloom. Edinson Cavani
I went to university for a year, and I’m not one for schooling and have no enjoyment sitting in a classroom all day and ended up going to live in England for two years, just to travel. I worked in a bar in a hotel for a couple of years and had no intention of becoming an actor. That’s where I met my agent. Travis Fimmel
We no longer sing and dance. We don’t know how to. Instead, we watch other people sing and dance on the television screen. Christmas, which was once a festival of active enjoyment, has turned into a binge of purely passive pleasures. Tom Hodgkinson
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
Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser’s gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys. Honore de Balzac
A lot of these guys come up and say, ‘Man, you were my influence, the way you thrashed the drums.’ They don’t seem to understand I was thrashing in order to hear what I was playing. It was anger, not enjoyment – and painful. Butch Trucks
There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better. Florence Henderson
There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a poet, I have no higher enjoyment than singing her sons and daughters. Robert Burns
The true doctrine is that labor – systematic, effective, congenial labor – is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment. Orison Swett Marden
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. Samuel Johnson
As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity. Simon Newcomb
