Meaningful Employment Quotes

I think a person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. Work begins when you don't like what you're doing. There's a wise saying: make your hobby your source of income. Then there's no such thing as work, and there's no such thing as getting tired. That's been my own experience. I did just what I wanted to do. It takes a little courage at first, because who the hell wants you to do just what you want to do; they've all got lots of plans for you. But you can make it happen.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

To make a living is no longer enough. Work also has to make a life.

My job is what millions of people do for recreation. How can you not like that?

I think it's important to find the joy in your work and the things that sort of renew that.

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.

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.

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

I've never worked for the sake of working. There's probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers so well that they would not feel that they were working for low ends, as for a livelihood merely, but for scientific, or even moral ends. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

The most rewarding thing is having a job that you love. It's not a luxury that everyone in this world enjoys.

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

It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which shall he worth doing, and be of itself pleasant to do … Nothing should be made by man's labor which is not worth making; or which must be made by labor degrading to the makers

There's a trend for people wanting more meaning in their work and pursuing something in the day-to-day that is valuable rather than working as a means to the end.

To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.

It's a blessing to have work that feels fulfilling.

I wouldn't be alive without my work.

If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.

I don't think I've worked a day in my life.

For me, work is sacred and very, very special.

I think there's a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

If you don't love what you are doing, it could be misery.