Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I guess I need a hobby. Currently my primary hobby is complaining.

I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom.

I think it must be awful not to work. My only point in being idle is to rest so that I can work more... I'm only unhappy when I'm not working.

Do I think people who need a good opportunity become harder workers sometimes? Yes.

That was something I needed to learn, to understand that you can work hard and enjoy it, too.

I don't like not working.

Work is as much a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing that can be called work still imagine they are doing something. The world has not a man who is an idler in his own eyes.

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

I wish [my wife] would [work] because - especially now the kind of - I mean, honesty is hardly the word. She writes with a ferocity of clarity that - nobody else around has now.

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety.

I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

I have six jobs.

It's always good to be working.

I'm not just going to go back to my bedroom, get a job and 'get real with myself' - come on. I'm already too old, and I'm lucky to have a job at all.

The most important lesson I've learned is how rich and rewarding life is when one can engage in meaningful work, whether on the job or outside of work.

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.

It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women.

I have no real ambition or strategy. If this was all to finish, it's totally fine. There's a lot more to do out there than put on silly frocks and shout for a living. I could always go back to, 'Would you like soup with that?'

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