Meaningful Work Quotes

I'd rather fail at something important than succeed at something trivial.

Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.

Without work all life goes rotten.

Meaningful work is within your grasp.

What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]

There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.

In business, as in life, all that matters is that you do something positive.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

To do meaningful work is to contribute - to create value in society.

To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.

Work is love made visible.

Find a happy person, and you will find a project.

A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they work for.

For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.

Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.

We all want to have a rich and meaningful work life and a fulfilling life beyond work.

Don't freak yourself out by what other people have. They don't have what you've got.

Many South Africans qualify for working visas in the UK and are keen to experience working and living overseas. However, more and more young people are rebelling against the materialistic 'me' generation and are keen to find meaningful work during their stay.

The best stuff in life isn't stuff at all... relationships, experiences & meaningful work are the staples of a happy life.

Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.

Focusing on one thing without interruption is how you get meaningful work done.

To increase student engagement and ownership of learning, we should give students opportunities to do meaningful work - work that makes a difference locally, nationally, and globally.

The love within us is meant to extend outward. The closer we grow to our inner light, we feel a natural urge to share it. We all long for meaningful work, some creative endeavor that will be our ministry, by which the energies within us might flow out to help heal the world.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Critics should find meaningful work.

I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.

In the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then you might gain that great tranquility that comes from knowing that you've had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered.

Happiness isn't found in some finite checklist of goals that we can diligently complete and then coast. It's how we live our lives in the process. That's why the four pillars of happiness are faith, family, community and meaningful work. Those are priorities we have to keep investing in.

To work effectively you need uninterrupted blocks of time in which you can complete meaningful work... I've found that a minimum of 90 minutes is ideal for a single block.

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. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

When our young people can find meaningful work, we all benefit. This youth jobs strategy would help connect youth with careers they can build on and equip them with the skills they need to thrive in today's global economy.

For me, the best things in life - meaningful work, meaningful relationships, interesting experiences, good food, sleep, music, ideas, sex, and other basic needs and pleasures - are not, past a certain point, materially improved upon by having a lot of money.

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which.

The positive emotions that arise in...unpromising circumstances demonstrate that social ties and meaningful work are deeply desired, readily improvised, and intensely rewarding. The very structure of our economy and society prevent these goals from being achieved.

Work hard at work worth doing.

When I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential and readiness for transformation and rebirth. We are creating an art form that comes from the heart and reflects the pain and sorrow of people's lives. It also expresses joy, beauty, and love. This process lays the foundation of building a genuine community in which people are reconnected with their families, sustained by meaningful work, nurtured by the care of each other and will together raise and educate their children. Then we witness social change in action.

Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

The secret to success is... is no secret. It's called work your Ass off and find a way to add more value to peoples lives than anyone else does!

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Realize that your physical experience and environment is the materialization of your beliefs. If you find great exuberance, health, effective work, abundance, smiles on the faces of those who you meet, then take it for granted that your beliefs are beneficial. If you see a world that is good, people like you, take it for granted again, that your beliefs are beneficial. But if you find poor health, a lack of meaningful work, a lack of abundance, a world of sorrow and evil, then assume your beliefs are faulty and begin examining them.