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Work Quotes

Quotes on the meaning of work.

Several quotes here describe work as a solitary process, one that takes real effort to protect from distraction, while others connect a person's politics directly to the character of their work. Related reading includes Growth Quotes.

I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

Quotes by Michael Arad

When you come to Denmark, you have the chance to live in a free, peaceful country with access to free education, free medical aid and the opportunity to work. To benefit from that requires responsibility. If you don’t assume that...

Quotes by Mette Frederiksen

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

Quotes by Mia Love

Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while, and that was to help me get through school.

Quotes by Mia Love

Barack Obama's class warfare will not work on this Republican nominee. Not in Utah.

Quotes by Mia Love

I will tell them that you can work hard, you can improve your life and the lives of your children in one day when you deliver your youngest child to the university, you will look her in the eye and...

Quotes by Mia Love

If someone is going to profit from your work, they need to earn it.

Quotes by Michael A. Stackpole

Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.

Quotes by Michael A. Stackpole

Choosing to publish work electronically myself is really a no-brainer.

Quotes by Michael A. Stackpole

I certainly knew of 'World of Warcraft'; I had never actually played because I knew that if I started playing, I would never get any work done - because it would just totally absorb me.

Quotes by Michael A. Stackpole

If your job all day is disallowing insurance claims, you can still spend an evening playing games with your friends, and you can be faced with threats and puzzles that are far more exciting than anything you've ever imagined facing...

Quotes by Michael A. Stackpole

I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.

Quotes by Merritt Wever

I usually spend my free time worrying about when I'm going to work next.

Quotes by Merritt Wever

You get royalties from certain songs that you do when you do background. It's according to the work that you put in.

Quotes by Merry Clayton

I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.

Quotes by Merton Miller

That I would rather be in another business where a bad cold wouldn't put me out of work.

Quotes by Merv Griffin

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

Quotes by Meryl Streep

I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.

Quotes by Meryl Streep

The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.

Quotes by Meryl Streep

Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.

Quotes by Meshell Ndegeocello

Frequently Asked Questions

What kind of quotes are on the "Work" page?
These lean toward the thoughtful side of work — the idea that "intellectual work is essentially a lonely process," the belief that one's politics and "the character of his particular work are inseparable," and an image of people unwinding after work all over the world talking about life's bigger questions.
Is there a spiritual angle to any of these?
While these particular quotes are secular, if you're looking for a spiritual perspective on work, see Prayers for that theme.
Do these quotes connect work to personal identity?
Yes, one of the strongest lines here argues that your politics and "the character of his particular work are inseparable" — the idea that what you do reflects who you are. If that resonates, Growth quotes explore a similar idea of work shaping the person.
Is there anything here about effort or persistence?
These specific quotes focus more on the nature and meaning of work than on effort itself, but Effort quotes cover that ground directly.
What about setting goals through work?
For that angle, Goal quotes is the better fit — the "Work" page here is more about the character and process of working itself.

There's also a lighter side - people unwinding after work to talk through life's bigger questions over drinks. See Effort Quotes and Goal Quotes for more on getting things done.