Dan Miller Quotes

The days you work are the best days.

What I don't want to do is just play for the sake of playing.

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.

Strengths are not activities you're good at, they're activities that strengthen you. A strength is an activity that before you're doing it you look forward to doing it; while you're doing it, time goes by quickly and you can concentrate; after you've done it, it seems to fulfill a need of yours.

Everyone wants that sense of fulfilling a purpose in some way.

The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

When we think about labor, we usually think about motivation and payment as the same thing, but the reality is that we should probably add all kinds of things to it - meaning, creation, challenges, ownership, identity, pride, etc.

It's crucial that people think that their lives have meaning and a purpose and that there's a reward or some sort of reality to achieving something and to learning something and becoming functional.

Purpose provides activation energy for living.

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.

Pleasure is the least consequential... engagement and meaning are much more important.

If you have a higher reason ... than just to make money... it will bring you longer fulfillment. And it won't feel like work.

Money need not be our only reward.

Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

When you love what you do, it pays off, and that's the best reward you could have.

I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.

If you can't get excited about living life, then what are you doing?

To work is to feel alive.

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

I never do anything for money; I get paid a lot of money as a by-product.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.