Work Meaning Quotes

Work gives you meaning. Work turns you into a servant to your family and to your neighbors and to your local community.

It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.

Irrelevance is the feeling that an employee gets when they don't see how their job really makes a difference in someone else's life in some large or small way.

Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

A paycheck is a sufficient impetus to motivate some employees to do the minimum amount to get by, and for others, the challenge of getting ahead in the organization provides a satisfactory focus for a while. But these incentives alone are rarely strong enough to inspire workers to give their best to their work. For this a vision is needed, an overarching goal that gives meaning to the job, so that an individual can forget himself in the task and experience flow without doubts or regrets. The most important component of such a vision is an ingredient we call soul.

When you're working and making money, that's all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.

That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting.

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two... Work is an expression of life.

Work allows us to take care of God's creation and bring glory to Him as His stewards.

We have a lot of kids who don't know what works means. They think work is a four-letter word.

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

When you change your focus to your purpose, you stop worrying about how much money you're going to make and your job title because those things to some degree are irrelevant if you don't love your work.

I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make.

Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production.

Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.

What are we here for except the offices?

Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.

Work is rich. It can be looked at psychologically or philosophically or personally. The interpretive nature of work is different than the work itself. The interpretation of work isn't the key to understanding it. I'm worried about making a good sculpture. I'm not so worried about the interpretation of it.

The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.

Work is really wrapped up with identity. Work is not just money for most people.

If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.

Capitalism arose and took off its pajamas. Another day, another dollar. Each man is valued at what he will bring in the marketplace. Meaning has been drained from work and assigned instead to remuneration.