Occupation Quotations | Page 4

And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible – and there is absolutely nobody like him.

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in their natural--their destined occupation.

Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy in it; if that man is left at any time without occupation or amusement, and reflects on what he is, the meagre, languid felicity of his present lot will not bear him up. He will turn necessarily to gloomy anticipations of the future; and unless his occupation calls him out of himself, he is inevitably wretched.

Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation. Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion.

Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.

Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well; for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end.

It is neither wealth nor splendor? but tranquillity and occupation which givehappiness.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness.

My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.

Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. .

Look for an occupation that you like, and you will not need to labor for a single day in your life.

Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.

Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings.

A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation.

One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

Do you smoke? Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. I'm glad to hear of it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.

The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.

The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.

A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

Occupation is the scythe of time.

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

Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we may make it holy.

He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good

Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.

Let thine occupations be few, saith the sage, if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life.

From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have no leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relation to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations.

To the other nations of the world, religion is one among the many occupations of life. There is politics, there are the enjoyments of social life, there is all that wealth can buy or power can bring, there is all that the senses can enjoy; and among all these various occupations of life and all this searching after something which can give yet a little more whetting to the cloyed senses - among all these, there is perhaps a little bit of religion. But here, in India, religion is the one and the only occupation of life.

If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

Had not a conviction of the danger to which an unlimited occupation of the executive chair would expose the republican Constitution of our Government, made it conscientiously a duty to retire when I did, the fear of becoming a dotard and of being insensible of it, would of itself have resisted all solicitations to remain.

To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting.

Occupation alone is happiness.

Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.

Absence of occupation is not rest.

The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil "a relish of knowledge" and you put life into his work.