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Quotes About Work

The happy people are those who are producing something.
~ William Ralph Inge
There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
There can be no joy in living without joy in work.
~ Thomas Aquinas
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
~ Henry Ford
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
~ George Bernard Shaw, Candida
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
~ Luc de Clapiers
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
~ Elbert Hubbard
If more persons would get so enthused over their day's work that some one would have to remind them to go out to lunch there would be more happiness in the world and less indigestion.
~ Charles M. Schwab
Happiness quells thought. And work quells thought.
~ Graham Swift
All happiness depends on courage and work.
~ Honore de Balzac
If I'm not working, I'm not happy. That's it. That's the prerequisite for me for happiness.
~ Donna Tartt
To be busy is man's only happiness.
~ Mark Twain
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
~ Colette
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
~ Arthur Christopher Benson
Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.
~ Seneca the Younger
There is no happiness that isn't earned
~ Dennis Prager
Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.
~ Robert Harris
Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
~ Thomas a Kempis
12% of dreams create jobs. 88% of jobs destroy dreams.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.
~ Bertrand Russell
Life without absorbing occupation is hell.
~ Elbert Hubbard
It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.
~ Thomas Jefferson