“The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it — every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.” — John D. Rockefeller III

“They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.” — Francis Bacon

“The happy people are those who are producing something.” — William Ralph Inge

“Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.” — Arthur Christopher Benson

“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.” — John Dewey

“If I were to suggest a general rule for happiness, I would say ‘Work a little harder; Work a little longer; Work!’” — Frederick H. Ecker

“To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.” — Frederick E. Crane

“Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.” — Sir Theodore Martin

“Happiness … loves to see men work. She loves sweat, weariness, self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces, but lurking in cornfields and factories, and hovering over littered desks.” — David Grayson

“Every job has drudgery … The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.” — M.C. Mcintosh

“There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness.” — Gelett Burgess

“Employment … is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.” — Burton

“Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.” — Leo C. Rosten

“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All happiness depends on courage and work.” — Honore de Balzac

“Man is happy only as he finds a work worth doing — and does it well.” — E. Merrill Root

“Life without absorbing occupation is hell.” — Elbert Hubbard

“There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.” — Samuel Johnson

“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

“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose … Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is … Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.” — Thomas Carlyle

“Few persons realize how much of their happiness, such as it is, is dependent upon their work.” — John Burroughs

“Joy is the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.” — William Butler Yeats

“Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.” — Elbert Hubbard

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