Gretchen Rubin Quotes

Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn’t-fair results, it turns out that the happy out-perform the less happy.

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.

I can see my work as a job. I do it for money. I likely already look forward to the weekend on Thursdays. And I probably will need a hobby as a leveling mechanism. In a career, I'm definitely more engaged. But at the same time, there will be periods when I think, 'Is all that really hard work really worth my while?'

If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.

I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.

I think it's important to love what you do and have a good time with it. I go to work every day and have a blast.

If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work, you don't know what you're missing.

Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.

Employment, which Galen calls "nature's physician," is so essential to human happiness, that Indolence is justly considered as the mother of Misery.

To continue to work, to continue to love what you do, is certainly a contributing element to one's longevity and health.

If you like your job, I suppose you enjoy working hard.

It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.

When you focus on life, on enjoying and connecting with other people, that's when work comes. When you focus on work, you can never work. I'm always going through waves of that.

I'm not in the type of work where you should rest.

I'm not interested in the mad race. I just like working with good people.

In theory, people would pick progression every time over being idle. But if you look at us as a culture, as a people, you would say that if you get up at five o'clock in the morning, eat your breakfast, go to work, make money, pay your bills, you're progressing, when you're still doing what's comfortable.

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

Wherever I am in the world, I never get Sunday night blues. I suppose it's because I've never worked at any one thing long enough to start hating it.

I want to do work, but I also want to have a good time.

I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.

I like being in the workforce; it keeps me grounded.

Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so.

The less I work, the happier I am. I discovered that, as most people discover at some point.

People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.