Quotes About Contentment

If you find a job you love, you'll never work again.

What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

In my line of business, there's no better feeling than having a real nice work that you're really satisfied with.

Let us work without desire for name or fame or rule over others. Let us be free from the triple bonds of lust, greed of gain, and anger. And this truth is with us!

I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

I don't care if people know who I am or if I make a ton of money, I just love my work so much.

I wish I had some interesting stories about living in L.A., but mostly I just do my work and then go home.

I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.

I only want my work to make people happy.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Love turns work into rest.

I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness--good faith, good friends, and all the work I can possibly do.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.

I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and the solitary place glad.

People are realizing that what seemed important to them in their lives-materialism and consumerism-doesn't work at all to make a happy heart. It actually makes an unhappy heart. And an unhappy world.

If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

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.

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.

Congenial labor is essence of happiness.