If there is anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.
Kin Hubbard
The only essential government worker drives the snowplow.
Workplace graffiti
I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.
Dean Acheson
Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichιs, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.
Alan Cark
Gratitude for Work
Thank God every day when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
Basil Carpenter
The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.
Oscar Wilde
The ugliest of trades have their moments. Were I a grave digger, or perhaps a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of pleasure.
Douglas Jerrold
Happiness in the Workplace
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Elbert Hubbard
If happiness is there for the taking why don't I see it all around me? Ever met a happy employee? A manager with integrity? A selfmotivated and smiling colleague? No. The only happy people are the prophets who spread the message.
Joep Schrijvers
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it.
W. H. Auden
Most people perform essentially meaningless work. When they retire that truth is borne upon them.
Brendan Francis
To love what you do and feel that it matters how could anything be more fun?
Katharine Graham
Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?
Homer Simpson
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer
If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.
Richard Henry Tawney
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso