Work Quotes

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

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"Work is meaningful when it serves a purpose greater than profit."
Flynn Rider
S
"Work is noble when it serves a purpose beyond yourself."
Sven
S
"Work becomes meaningful when it aligns with your values."
Sven
P
"Work becomes joy when done for those you love."
Pascal
P
"Work has meaning when love guides it."
Pascal
F
"Work hard, dream harder."
Fairy Godmother
T
"Work smarter, not harder."
Tai Frasier
T
"Work doesn't have to feel like work."
Tai Frasier
H
"I'm doing my duty."
Heathcliff
A
"Work is no less necessary to man than eating and sleeping."
Anna Karenina
D
"Work and diligence are the parents of good fortune."
Don Quixote
M
"Even gods have to deal with administrative red tape."
Mr. D (Dionysus)
E
"Work ennobles the spirit."
Edmond Dantès
Y
"The absurdity of being forced to fly more missions due to one's competence"
Yossarian
M
"Concentrate every minute like a Roman, and a man, on doing what's in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness."
Marcus Aurelius
M
"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small."
Marcus Aurelius
W
"The instrument was called the Reckonometer. He had invented it himself."
Winston Smith
J
"Be honest and industrious, and you will prosper."
Joe Gargery
J
"What is nobler than work?"
Joe Gargery
L
"It is a privilege to live and work for others"
Lucie Manette
J
"My time is governed by my duties."
Jane Eyre
J
"There are heavy stones to raise, and work to do, and difficulties to overcome"
Jarvis Lorry
M
"Business first; pleasure afterwards."
Mr. Bennet
I
"Once more the try-works were fiercely stoked; the long rows of casks began loading"
Ishmael
S
"This is my work now, though I am but sore beset by it."
Starbuck
J
"I've been a blacksmith for twenty years, and I know what work is."
Joe Gargery
M
"I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety."
Mr. Darcy
T
"All work must be paid for in the end"
The Narrator
M
"You are diverting me from serious work by all this badinage."
Mr. Rochester
T
"Business could not be transacted, and there was nothing else to do but work and moan."
The Narrator