Mitch Albom Quotes

We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.

Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

I think if I manage to juggle a personal life that I'm really happy with as well, as long as I manage to maintain balance, that's kind of the mark of success to me.

Work is the most nourishing thing so far in my life.

When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.

I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.

When I'm working, it's great. When I'm not working, it's great.

Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple truth.It is this: the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status and happiness in life.

The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is, exists only by being spent and there is a good case for showing that airplanes, machines, the telephone, and the radio do not make men of today happier than those of former times.

I'm content because I'm a busy person.

Do whatever you have to do as quickly as you can, so you can do whatever you WANT to do, for as long as you can.

- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do! - Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.

If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.

To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

I never feel like I conquered the day and did everything I possibly should have, could have, would have.

once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.

The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel Guggenheim, onetime head of the greatest smelting and mining family in America, impressed upon me. Real recreation quickens aspiration. The true purpose of recreation is not merely to amuse, not merely to afford pleasure, not merely to kill time, but to increase our fitness, enhance our usefulness, spur achievement.

I'll be very busy, which is all I need.

The most important lesson I've learned is how rich and rewarding life is when one can engage in meaningful work, whether on the job or outside of work.

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.