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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.

No one believes more strongly than I do that every Christian should be a theologian. In that sense, we all need to work it out. I want all Christians who can read, to read their Bibles and to read beyond...

Quotes by D. A. Carson

Two of my sons are themselves filmmakers, and we can't afford them nor they us. They work in the real world and earn money and are pretty good at it.

Quotes by D. A. Pennebaker

The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and...

Quotes by D. A. Pennebaker

I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.

Quotes by D. B. Sweeney

There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.

Quotes by D. B. Sweeney

Any time I get to work a home game, it's awesome.

Quotes by D. B. Sweeney

Choosing to work where there is a union and getting the related benefits of higher wages and collective bargaining, but not paying a fair share of the costs of representation, would be freeloading, right?

Quotes by Cynthia Dill

Watching Mum work hard made me do the same. I've watched her since I was little, and I've picked up on how hard she works and the fire she has in her belly.

Quotes by Cynthia Erivo

I have so much respect for people who do blue-collar work because I come from that background myself.

Quotes by Cynthia Kadohata

Ageing is very exciting. But if I didn't work on ageing, I'd want to work on the brain. There are really cool techniques you can use now. And bioinformatics. The methods you can use for comparing large data sets -...

Quotes by Cynthia Kenyon

It's typical for people living in nonurban areas to drive 100 miles to go to work, to the grocery store or to the doctor.

Quotes by Cynthia Lummis

Unlike me, a lot of child actors are very short, which is why they work. So when they're 15 they can play 11 or when they're 18 they can play 14. They look young for so long, they have abilities...

Quotes by Cynthia Nixon

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.

Quotes by Cynthia Ozick

Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.

Quotes by Cynthia P. Schneider

Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work?

Quotes by Cynthia Payne

Sly always had us rehearsing, and he always had something planned out that he wanted us to do. So it wasn't ever like, 'Well what should we work on?' It was never that. He always had the plan, 'This is...

Quotes by Cynthia Robinson

I told my kids, 'It doesn't matter if this person or that person in the family isn't perfect; this is what you've got. We have to work with that, and if you can't work with that, then you're just jumping...

Quotes by Cynthia Robinson

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

Quotes by Cynthia Rowley

I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night.

Quotes by Cynthia Rowley

I think writing is a part-time career, because otherwise you get a little stale, maybe even self-indulgent, when you have to fill the hours with sentences. I don't think, if I wrote 12 hours a day, my work would be...

Quotes by Cynthia Voigt

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.