Career Quote by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

— Leigh Hunt

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

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Occupation alone is happiness.

— Samuel Johnson

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

— George Bernard Shaw

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“the superfluity of the comforts of like destroys all joy in satisfying one's needs, while great freedom in the choice of occupation...is just what…

— Leo Tolstoy

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

— Irving Babbitt

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

— Walter Savage Landor

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“A pleasure that is ephemeral brings no true satisfaction to any man. How miserable must be the lives of those folk who labor so…

— Seneca

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation,…

— George Bernard Shaw

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have…

— Aristotle