Ashley Montagu Quotes

The only thing that can bring joy is work.

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.

The phone's not ringing off the hook, but that's ok by me. I feel very fortunate, work to me has become a kind of hobby.

We believe in working hard and having fun at the same time. It's a way of life for me, and I feel tremendous.

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

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

The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.

There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.

The key to happiness is not being rich; it's doing something arduous and creating something of value and then being able to reflect on the fruits of your labor.

Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

The more I work the happier I am.

I believe people work for satisfaction.

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.

Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.