Work Quotes

The daily grind, the creative struggle, and why what we do matters more than we think.

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"The merchant who knows many lands becomes wealthy in knowledge before in coin."
Strabo
"Work is not a punishment but a privilege."
Diogenes Laërtius
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"Hard work never yet killed a man."
Juvenal
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"Idleness is the mother of all vice."
Juvenal
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"The greatest reward for a man's toils is not what he gets for them, but what he becomes by them."
Plutarch
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"No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune."
Plutarch
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"Work is the noble expression of human will."
Apuleius
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"The work of understanding the world is never complete."
Strabo
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"Excellence is the pursuit of those who love their craft."
Strabo
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"What we build lasts only as long as our understanding endures."
Strabo
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"Work is not the curse; idleness is the disease."
Petronius
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"Work ennobles the soul that approaches it with dignity."
Petronius
"To do great work, one must love what they do."
Diogenes Laërtius
"Work is the path to dignity."
Diogenes Laërtius
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"Work without purpose is slavery; with purpose, it is freedom."
Juvenal
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"Work done with the wrong intention brings suffering rather than fulfillment."
Porphyry
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"Work becomes prayer when done with full presence and righteous intention."
Porphyry
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"Work is the sculptor of human dignity."
Apuleius
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"Work becomes pleasure when pursued with passion."
Apuleius
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"Work gives meaning to life."
Martial
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"Work is noble and dignified."
Martial
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"Work without purpose is mere toil."
Ammianus Marcellinus
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"Work ennobles the soul."
Ammianus Marcellinus
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"Hard work is the price of success."
Suetonius
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"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life."
Suetonius
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"Constant activity is not necessarily progress."
Plutarch
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"When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring the means of subsistence."
Plutarch
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"The work of a day, however humble, has dignity."
Tacitus
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"Work gives purpose to life."
Tacitus
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"To work without purpose is to exist in a prison of one's own making."
Juvenal