Work Quotes

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

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"My practice has extended recently to the Australian colonies."
Sherlock Holmes
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"The cases which come to me are just a little too interesting to feel like hard work."
Sherlock Holmes
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"Work is love made visible."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"I have nothing to do today. My mind rebels at stagnation."
Sherlock Holmes
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"Such singular events are always of interest to one in my profession."
Sherlock Holmes
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"The business world teaches nothing but deception."
Siddhartha
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"Work is love made visible."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the thread with threads drawn from your heart."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"But if you in your pain serve only yourself, you cook but one meal."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"For life and labour were born of necessity, and what is born of necessity is not labour but travail."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"Do the kind of work you'd do if you were independently wealthy."
Morrie Schwartz
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"An active life serves the purpose of giving man a chance to find meaning in his work."
Viktor Frankl
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"Work is love made visible."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"Do the kind of work you would do if you were independently wealthy."
Morrie Schwartz
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"Work is love made visible."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"When you go to work, you are really going to be working for other people, on the strength of their company."
Morrie Schwartz
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"You have to find meaning in what you do. That's what I tell young people."
Morrie Schwartz
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"An active life serves the purpose of giving man a chance to realize values in creative work, while a passive life of enjoyment affords him a chance to receive values."
Viktor Frankl
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"When you go to work, you are really saying, 'I don't know what to do with my life.'"
Morrie Schwartz
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"Work is love made visible."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have."
Morrie Schwartz
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"Work is love made visible."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures."
Marcus Aurelius
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"Work is love made visible."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"An active life serves the purpose of giving man a chance to find meaning in his work."
Viktor Frankl
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"Work is love made visible."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"An active life serves the purpose of giving man a chance to realize values in creative work"
Viktor Frankl
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"Meaning can be created through accomplishment and creative endeavor"
Viktor Frankl
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"Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection"
Henry David Thoreau
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"There is nobility in labour, not shame."
Zarathustra