Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Make your work your play and your play your work.

The only thing that can bring joy is work.

I love to work. Doing things we love is how we relax, I think.

I learn that you can work really hard and still have a great time. That is part of Russell Crowe philosophy.

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.

You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin.

I like to work hard and play hard.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

When you have fun doing something, it stops being work, really.

When you fulfil your dreams you don't count the hours of working. You just enjoy what you're doing.

The happiest people are those who have learned to mix play with their work and to bind the two together with enthusiasm.

I think training and being dedicated is very important, but one aspect that I always live by is that I enjoy myself in what I do!

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

Learn to love your work and you'll never have to 'work' again.

If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.

The trick is, when you grow up, find work that feels like play.

Basically, my work is play. It never actually feels that way - I'm always aiming to attain that state. But I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.

I don't have to work another day of my life, thank God, but I'm in a place where I probably work as hard or harder today than I ever have, but I do it because I want to, not because I have to. What is the difference between work and play? I think the difference is purpose. When your vocation becomes your vacation, the old quote, you know that's when you made it.

If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you're already a success.

I know that anybody who does all this and doesn't have to, everything thinks she's very driven. The truth is, I enjoy it all so! Can't it be that simple? I think it is! I don't feel overworked. I get a constant kick out of being heavily committed. Is that sick or something? God, what would I do sitting still?

Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm, that no man enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.

I am going to continue to work hard, but I do not take it too seriously, I just do what feels right and I really want to have a good time.