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Quotes About Contentment

Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don't have to do it, but it's here if you choose to come back to it.
~ Ilona Andrews, Magic Bleeds
You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin.
~ George Eliot
I work hard in the orchard, not for the money anymore, but for something I can't explain. Something worth more than money.
~ Steven Herrick
You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life.
~ Audrey Hepburn
I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.
~ William Dobell
Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation.
~ Claude Monet
You can never plan anything, you're never guaranteed anything. As long as I'm getting the work and it's quality then I'm happy. But you never know.
~ Danny Dyer
To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.
~ Frederick E. Crane
So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.
~ Graham Greene
I tend to stay in one place and become a hermit and not leave. Work, work, work, and collect things, create and curate a space.
~ Kesh
You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at the view.
~ Laura Lee
I'm not scheduling my entire life to death in order to be able do the work I've got to do. So at the moment I'm quite happy.
~ Michelle Gomez
If you make something your life's work, make sure it's something you can feel proud of when you're an old relic like me.
~ Patrick Carman
After you've work hard to get what you want, take the time to enjoy it.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.
~ Rita Mae Brown
One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.
~ Antonio Banderas
The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.
~ Laozi
So the first thing in democracy, people must have satisfaction. If you don't have satisfaction, it's not going to work out.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Please yourself, not others... It must first work for you if it is ever to be useful to others.
~ Paul Laseau
The highest happiness is a by-product of worthy work well done.
~ Rene Auberjonois
I want to work and be happy.
~ Rickie Lee Jones
Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.
~ Sarah Caldwell
So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.
~ Sidney Poitier
I could work 24 hours and I wouldn't complain once because I'm happiest when I'm working.
~ Victoria Justice