Work Quotes

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

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"I have learned that most of evil comes from idleness and boredom."
Abbé Faria
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"All sorrow and vexation spring from idleness."
Don Quixote
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"You can't live only for yourself; the world is waiting for your service."
Levin
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"Work and love; these are the only two realities in the world."
Levin
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"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Levin
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"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Don Quixote
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"Work is the only thing that saves us."
Levin
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"Work is the only thing that ever comes to me."
Alexei Vronsky
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"Work is the noblest of virtues"
Sancho Panza
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"What's the use of that gasoline station in the valley of ashes?"
Nick Carraway
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"He was content with mediocrity."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Work ennobles the spirit."
Edmond Dantès
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"Our father didn't do anything. He worked in an office, not in a drugstore."
Scout Finch
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"Every lawyer has a few cases in his lifetime which mean everything to him."
Atticus Finch
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"Every one works for every one else."
Lenina Crowne
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"Do you like your work?"
John the Savage
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"The only thing that's kept me from being a bum is the fact that I've always been such a hard worker."
Tom Buchanan
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"A man is born for action, and activity is his calling."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"I thought Atticus relished a courtroom the same way some people relished mint juleps."
Scout Finch
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"The work we do defines our character."
Nikolai Rostov
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"There are just some kind of men who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us."
Atticus Finch
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"The whole secret of the existence of man is that he should find something to do."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"There is always some something immensely more interesting to do than whatever thing one actually is doing."
Bernard Marx
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"Do the best you can with what you have."
Atticus Finch
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"Work gives meaning and purpose to our existence"
Platon Karataev
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"Every one works for every one else."
Mustapha Mond
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"You can always find something to do when you don't have to earn a living"
Lenina Crowne
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"You need something with a bit of pep to it."
Lenina Crowne
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"Work keeps you from thinking about what you've lost."
Billy Bibbit
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"No sir, I don't mind a bit."
Milo Minderbinder