Career Quote by Honore de Balzac

The man who falls in love chill find plenty of occupation.

— Ovid

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much…

— Anonymous

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

— E. W. Howe

Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means of…

— Thomas Merton

I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his…

— Demosthenes

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

— Roger Ebert

Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.

— P. T. Barnum

Men are not really born either hopelessly idle, or preternaturally industrious. They may move in one direction or the other as will or circumstances…

— Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

Agriculture for an honorable and highminded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living

— Xenophon

The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a certain work;…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Few people ever have an abundance of choice of occupation. But what matters is that we have some choice, that we are not absolutely…

— Friedrich August von Hayek