Work Quotes

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

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"Work becomes prayer when done with full presence."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Work is not a curse but a pathway to self-discovery."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Work is the medium through which the soul expresses itself."
Nikolai Gogol
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"I like money, but I'd rather have it from my writing than my mother."
Anton Chekhov
"The work is everything."
Samuel Beckett
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"The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase."
Leo Tolstoy
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"One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The peculiar nature of the work consists of the fact that it seems absurd and unnecessary."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Work without purpose is merely suffering."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"A life spent in service to others is a life well lived."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"A writer is a man who has taught himself to work as hard as he can."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Work is prayer made visible."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Work done with love is work done with joy."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Work without passion is merely servitude with a different master."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives."
James Joyce
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"Work in excess is the cause of man's sickness."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"One can live magnificently in this world, if one knows how to work and how to love."
Leo Tolstoy
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"To love life through labor is to protect it."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The task is noble; do not ask about the reward."
Anton Chekhov
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"I feel more confident and more satisfied when I am engaged in my work."
Anton Chekhov
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"We are not given a life but given a task to accomplish."
Anton Chekhov
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"Be careless in your dress if you must, but never in your work."
Anton Chekhov
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"The most sacred thing is to subordinate one's personality to one's work."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Whatever you do, do it well."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Work is love made visible."
William Butler Yeats
"We are made by what we make."
Samuel Beckett
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"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
Oscar Wilde
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"The deed is everything, the glory nothing."
Leo Tolstoy
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"One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Work that serves others is the most fulfilling work."
Leo Tolstoy