Quotes About Contentment

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Don't just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction

You already have everything you need to be content. Your real work is to do whatever it takes to realize that.

The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.

I work for enjoyment and satisfaction - not just to earn a living.

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.

Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.

I'm not saying that I don't like the success of the job, but I really like going to work every day and I really like coming home and feeling satisfied with what I did today.

I come to work with a smile and I leave with a laugh, and I'm so grateful.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us.

I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.

Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.

To be at ease is better than to be at business.

I don't need to have three feather pillows in my trailer. I just don't work that way.

I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.

work is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me.

I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.

I don't want money badly enough to work for it.

But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?

Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy.

The horse would plough, the ox would drive the car. No; do the work you know, and tarry where you are.

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.