John Ruskin Quotes

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

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.

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

When you enjoy what you do, work becomes play.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

I like to work. I believe that work helps us find our self worth.

Work certainly does help fill a void.

When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.

I'm against retiring. The thing that keeps a man alive is having something to do.

Working makes me happy, makes me calm.

Some people unfortunately don't enjoy what they do at all for a living or whatever. That is unfortunate. We do always enjoy playing music.

Never find yourself bored at work.

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

It is work which gives flavor to life.

The only thing that can bring joy is work.

To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else.

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

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

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

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

I need to work to feel well.

If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough?