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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.

We're both very passionate about the arts. Mom, of course with her arts background. I have a theater background and work with children.

Quotes by Emma Walton Hamilton

I promised myself I wouldn't work again until I found something that excited me.

Quotes by Emily VanCamp

Into The Gloss is buoyed by the people on it, the people who read it and discuss it, and the people who work on it.

Quotes by Emily Weiss

The great thing about interning at 'Teen Vogue' is that there is so much room for growth; interns here do incredible things if they work hard enough and think outside the box.

Quotes by Emily Weiss

At 'Vogue,' I was responsible for a lot of production work, and production work is highly detailed, and you have to be very resourceful to fit a square peg into a round hole. I learned to push the envelope when...

Quotes by Emily Weiss

Ultimately, we're making and selling a consumer good that needs to work and that needs to make customers happy.

Quotes by Emily Weiss

The creation of 'Into The Gloss' took less than a month. Glossier took twelve months and about a million dollars to hire the team, work with the chemists, order the inventory, get an office - you know, the whole thing.

Quotes by Emily Weiss

I like people who work hard.

Quotes by Emily Weiss

I learned from the best people in soap because it's so fast and involves multiple camera work. You don't get any rehearsal time - you just learn your script and then you're off and running.

Quotes by Emma Barton

I’ve cried multiple times after posting a video. So much work goes into each video that I don’t know how I’m still alive.

Quotes by Emma Chamberlain

I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at...

Quotes by Emma Donoghue

I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work, so please give us more historicals.'

Quotes by Emma Donoghue

I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live here. If you want to work in film, that's really where you have to be. But I'm not sure...

Quotes by Emily Mortimer

In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off my awful roles and made fun of myself to friends, my work made me cringe - I dreaded...

Quotes by Emily Mortimer

Economics works great for planning your life when you don't have a work passion, since we tend to assume that your job delivers only money and you trade off job hours with leisure hours. If you think your job will...

Quotes by Emily Oster

Your bikini should compliment your dress, and they should work together to frame your body. It's just like layering a T-shirt under a blazer. Just keep your proportions in mind.

Quotes by Emily Ratajkowski

I have a pretty intense work ethic. If something's not done, I cannot let go until I get it done.

Quotes by Emily V. Gordon

It's easy to isolate yourself when you're buried in work, or to rely only on work friends for empathy. And while your work friends will always 'get it' more than your life partner, they don't know how to comfort you...

Quotes by Emily V. Gordon

If you've experienced cheating in a new marriage, the real work is not obsessively combing through all the details of what happened, but rather figuring out if your relationship is worth saving.

Quotes by Emily V. Gordon

After my divorce, I took some time off from having a romantic life to begin the tough work of figuring out where I'd gone wrong and what on Earth I could do to understand how to be a whole person...

Quotes by Emily V. Gordon

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.