Quotes about Work
Honestly, people have said everything under the sun. I just want to do my work, raise my kids, and hopefully find somebody who I can share my life with again.
— Nicole Kidman
I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing.
— Paulo Coelho
Anything that makes us forget who we are and what we want; that way we can work in order to produce, reproduce, and earn money.
— Paulo Coelho
We live not to ourselves, our work is life.
— Philip James Bailey
Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.
— Phillips Brooks
Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons
— Pope John Paul II
Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
— Pope John Paul II
At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.
— Publilius Syrus
The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.
— Octavia Butler
Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.
— Oprah Winfrey
To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
— Oscar Wilde
The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.
— Oswald Chambers