Work Quotes

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

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"All excellence is achieved through dedication and suffering."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"Labor is but another name for idle hands."
Emily Dickinson
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"The great art of life is to work, to work faithfully, and to work with all the heart."
Washington Irving
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"There is a fascination in every true endeavor to communicate something useful to mankind."
Washington Irving
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"Work without purpose is slavery; purpose without work is mere dreaming."
Herman Melville
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"The work that matters most is the work that scares us."
Herman Melville
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"Work ennobles the human spirit and gives it purpose."
Herman Melville
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"We are not happy unless we are doing something that matters."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Luck is not chance, it's toil."
Emily Dickinson
"Work is the curse of the drinking class."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Work with purpose."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have."
Henry James
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"A writer must be willing to sacrifice himself for his work."
François Mauriac
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Mark Twain
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"Work becomes play when it aligns with our true purpose."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"In much the same way as the great Pyramids were built without machines."
Herman Melville
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"Every man should relax from his serious and heavy occupations only for the sake of business itself."
Anatole France
"Work is the punishment for being born poor."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Work that does not engage the soul is merely labor."
François Mauriac
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"Work should be an extension of who we are, not an escape from it."
François Mauriac
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"The busiest man is the idlest."
Henry James
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"All endeavors call upon us to do what we ought; therefore all just enterprises teach us our duty."
Herman Melville
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"The work of a man is his legacy upon the earth."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Whoever has taken up in any earnest pursuit knows what it is to forget himself."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Labor is the cure for sorrow and anxiety."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Work is the curse of the drinking classes and the salvation of the stupid."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Work gives life meaning only to those with no imagination."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline