Work (Vocation)

Work (Vocation)

• Work is more fun than fun.  — Noel Coward

• Work is life.  Not having something to do with one’s life, something important or unique to your talents or however you put it, is a bigger killer than cancer. — Ray Mungo

• Work and love—these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis. — Dr. Theodore Reik, psychologist

• A good livelihood is a cure for all ills. — Yiddish Proverb

• An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a person’s entire existence. —Balzac

• Where our work is, there let our joy be.  — Tertullian, c. 220

• Blessed is he who has found his work. Let him ask no other blessedness. —Thomas Carlyle

• If a person loves the labor of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. — Robert Louis Stevenson

• Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure. — George Sand

• Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. — Buddha

• A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.  — Zig Ziglar

• Every person’s task is his life preserver. — Emerson

• Work is the great redeemer. It has therapeutic value. It brings happiness. — Henry Miller

• It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand. — Michelangelo

• The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it. — John Ruskin

• We work to become, not to acquire. — Elbert Hubbard

• The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. — Logan Pearsall Smith

• When people are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower. — John Ruskin

• The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. — Earl Nightingale