Tom Rath Quotes

Don't just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction.

For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.

I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful.

It's not about working anymore, its about doing work I can be proud of.

To do work that's not going to be fulfilling doesn't make sense.

Finding meaning in your work is your responsibility. Any job can be better when you actively work to find meaning in the work.

You get to a point in life where you have to enjoy what you do when you come in every day.

I just want to do stuff that gives me work satisfaction.

The day we struggle to enjoy what we do and just get the gig over with we'll quit.

Those of us who have been lucky enough to experience a calling in our work have a certain faith and peace of mind that it's exactly when we're supposed to be doing.

Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life. If you're the latter, keep up the good work.

In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable.

Making a living and having a life are not the same thing. Making a living and making a life that's worthwhile are not the same thing. Living the good life and living a good life are not the same thing. A job title doesn't even come close to answering the question. "What do you do?".

I don't have to work another day of my life, thank God, but I'm in a place where I probably work as hard or harder today than I ever have, but I do it because I want to, not because I have to. What is the difference between work and play? I think the difference is purpose. When your vocation becomes your vacation, the old quote, you know that's when you made it.

Ever since I've been here [in Russia], my life has been consumed with work that's actually fulfilling and satisfying.

To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

The majority of people consider their work a means to an end. People who work for money only come to the end faster than people who are involved in their life’s purpose every day.

The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.

You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it - because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?

If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work.

I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, 'I'd rather starve than do a whole bunch of work that I don't care about.' The older I got, the more I understood what he was saying. If I want to do a whole lot of work that I don't care about, then I would probably be working in a law office somewhere.

I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

No-one works for money alone and tapping into what people want from their careers and what they have to offer is essential.

I want to do work that means something to me so that when I go to work at the theater eight times a week, I want to be there.