Katherine Mansfield Quotes

Work is life. Work is opportunity.

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

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.

Work is the best thing to make us love life.

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

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

I love working. It gives you a reason to get up in the morning.

I am hungry for good work.

The only thing that can bring joy is work.

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

Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.

Happiness mainly depends on man's ability to work and the way in which he does it.

One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to do.

Work is what saves you.

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

If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

It's a privilege to do what I do for a living - to take people out of their miserable day, or to educate somebody, or make somebody laugh, or fall in love with an idea. How good is that? And I get paid to do it!

It's always good to be working.

None of my characters have really had jobs.

It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do.

I want to be challenged, I want to work, and I want to feel that I am not being held back, that there is something in front of me, something more inspiring than... just eating breakfast, you know?

We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.