Occupation Quotes

• It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Happiness, Work

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.100, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

  William Osler

  Inspirational, Success, Congratulations

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.76, ACP Press

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• Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

  Leigh Hunt

  Busy, Enjoyment, Bases

  Leigh Hunt (1859). “A book for a corner: or, Selections in prose and verse from authors the best suited to that mode of enjoyment ...”, p.12

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• Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Inspirational, Listening, Marketing

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• Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

  William Cowper

  Wisdom, Relaxation, Mind

  William Cowper, James Montgomery (1825). “Poems of William Cowper ... With an introductory essay by James Montgomery ... Second edition”, p.240

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• Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of their time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all their occupations. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, chaos will soon reign.

  Victor Hugo

  Morning, Light, Labyrinth

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• Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!

  Edna Ferber

  Writing, Climbing, Interesting

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

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• A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Nuisance, World, Humans

  "Are Women Human?" by Dorothy L. Sayers, 1938.

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• Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.

  John Burroughs

  Fun, Work, Blessed

  John Burroughs (1913). “The Writings of John Burroughs”

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• LIFE: My favorite occupation.

  Dirk Benedict

  My Favorite

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  By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Motivational, Hilarious

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• Layering and changeability: this is the key, the combination that is worked into most of my buildings. Occupying one of these buildings is like sailing a yacht; you modify and manipulate its form and skin according to seasonal conditions and natural elements, and work with these to maximize the performance of the building.

  Glenn Murcutt

  Nature, Keys, Sailing

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• Our trip to Moscow opens new prospects for peace in the Middle East. Our people want simple things: to be free and to have sovereignty. All this is impossible without an end to the occupation.

  Khaled Mashal

  Simple, People, Want

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• Resistance will continue as long as the occupation and aggression continues. There is no recognition of Israel, no matter what the cost is.

  Khaled Mashal

  Israel, Long, Cost

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• Occupation is the scythe of time.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Time, Scythes

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon's life in camp and cabinet, from the French of M. de Bourienne, Segur, Las Cases, &c. &c. &c”, Рипол Классик

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Happiness, Joy, Forget

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Writing is a solitary occupation.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Writing, Solitary

  "An Interview with Cape Cod Author Bernard Cornwell". Interview with Christopher Seufert, ezinearticles.com. February 27, 2006.

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• In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.

  Henri Nouwen

  Identity, Way, Busy

  "The Essential Henri Nouwen" by Henri Nouwen, (p. 152), 2009.

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• Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Motivational, Girl, Work

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• The international community has the moral responsibility of aiding a people under occupation; however, we will not beg for their money.

  Khaled Mashal

  Responsibility, People, Community

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• Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

  Madame de Stael

  Peace, Truth, War

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• Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

  Blaise Pascal

  Loneliness, Passion, Men

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• By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Lonely, Sarcasm, Rights

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• It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Men, Faults, May

  "Gauss-Schumacher Briefwechsel". Book by Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1862.

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