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