Joaquin Phoenix Quotes

Our jobs determine to a large extent what our lives are like. Is what you do for a living making you ill? Does it keep you from becoming a more fully realized person? Do you feel ashamed of what you have to do at work? All too often, the answer to such questions is yes. Yet it does not have to be like that. Work can be one of the most joyful, most fulfilling aspects of life. Whether it will be or not depends on the actions we collectively take.

Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It's about making them happy.

I don't believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.

I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.

I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.

I know it's a cliche, but I've been happy to go to work every day.

When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it!

I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.

Having said that, I enjoyed every minute of my time and I got a degree of job satisfaction which I am sure was far greater than the majority of my colleagues.

We tend to think that employment is employment, and we don't ask the question: is this rewarding employment? Research establishes pretty clearly that typical notions of happiness - that more is better - really don't correspond to the way people think and feel.

It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.

I really love my work, so wherever it takes me, I'm happy to be.

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.

It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.

I really got to see my dad enjoy every day that he was working. Everybody should be able to have this much fun when they go to work.

I've discovered, I guess, that it's fun to work.

I'm pretty darn happy with my day job.

I know most people don't like their jobs very much and don't get a lot of personal satisfaction from their jobs. That's something that I really do get a lot of.

I wake up every day and I can't wait to go to work, and that's a gift. Not too many people have the opportunity to feel that way.

If someone is a known spectacular quantity, then they're probably working in a job and very happy with that.

It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.

I'm very fortunate. I don't think anyone should have a job that they don't really enjoy.

Quite honestly, as long as I am working, can enjoy what I do, get on with it, and put bread on the table, I am really happy.