Os Guinness Quotes

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.

A job is something we do to get a paycheck and pay our bills. Jobs are legitimate, at times, but work is why we are here in the universe. Work and calling often go together.

Whether we call it a job or a career, work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are.

Everybody makes money for a living, but most of us actually do something that has a point, in addition to just making money. We examine and treat patients, we teach students, we draw up contracts and wills, we write for newspapers, magazines, and web sites, we clean floors, or we serve meals.

My newspaper job … is my identity.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

Calling can refer not only to ways of doing - meaning work - but also to ways of being.

Acting is my job.

I'm an actor. It's my job.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.

A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do.

It's all in the day's work [C'est le métier].

I have a lot of respect for what I do, for this profession.

I know what my dharma is: I'm supposed to be an actor.

My vocation is I do what I do. I'm an actor; that's what I do.

Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.

Work has been the central column for most of my life; it has always been my identity.

When all is said and done, teaching is what I try to do for a living.

A job is how you make money. A career is how you make your mark. A calling is how you acknowledge a higher vision, whatever it may be.

Not everyone has a Life's Work. Some people simply have a Life.

We may at times be unemployed, but no one ever becomes uncalled.

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.