Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. 2.41K
I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That’s what happiness is. 2.03K
One’s work usually occupies more than half of one’s waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing. 915
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. 644
Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness. 669
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. 616
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. 758
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. 1.56K
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. 886
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. 737
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. 631
I don’t think about my previous success. I’m happy that the work I’ve done has been very successful. 671
Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn’t guarantee success, but without it you don’t have a chance. 631
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. 599
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. 638
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. 666
If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours. 608
I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don’t appreciate that. 684
