Orison Swett Marden Quotes

I have fun when I want to have fun, but I am learning how to balance my life out.

I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with my family, do everything in moderation, because I want to enjoy my life.

Working hard is a great way to impact the world, to learn, to grow, to feel accomplished, and sometimes even to find happiness, but it becomes a problem when you do so at the expense of the people closest to you.

Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.

As with most things in my life, I believe you should try to enjoy yourself and never feel like you are a slave to a routine.

I'm going to do as much as I can with this life, and then I'm going to make sure to take some time off and be simple and ride my bike and hang out with friends.

Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.

Whenever I made money I invested in myself... I bought whatever I needed to make my career better. I never really spent money on other stuff, like buying expensive cars.

Not too much hard work, plenty of time to read, good society, etcetera.

Don't feel badly when you take off work to go for a run, to go for a walk; don't feel badly to take time to play with your children, to be part of their lives. Work is important, but you can't work at your best unless you're a whole person.

I think if you don't enjoy something, it's not sustainable.

So, the older I got the more I started to appreciate balance and variety in my life, and once you get a taste of that returning and realize how happy it can make you it is very difficult to conceive giving that up again.

I like a well-rounded life. All of this work is kind of useless if you don't have something good to come home to.

I like to live life and not work every second of the day, and spend time with my family and stuff like that. Balance is very important for me.

Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

I just want to live my life the best way I can and enjoy the moment that I have off the court because you need to find a good balance. I think this is very important.

I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

I try to only read light things when I'm working on my books, and in the evenings I watch a lot of mindless TV. I have to break up the 'dark,' or I wouldn't be a very happy person.

Just because you can afford it doesn't mean you should buy it.

I try to do my best to have fun off the court.

I think a lot of times people who jump from one movie to another don't enjoy their private life. It's a great way to escape reality. But I enjoy my life.

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.

I took some time out for life.

I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.