CURATED COLLECTION

Finding Meaning in Your Work

The difference between a job and a calling is not always the job — it's often the meaning you bring to it.

50 quotes found

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The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work.

—Betty FriedanFeminist Writer & Activist

Post-War ERA • North America

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Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

—HesiodEpic Poet

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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A person who does not love his work, does not find joy.

—Abai QunanbaiulyPoet, Composer & Philosopher

Industrial Age ERA • Central Asia

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My hands are a tool. They help me to think.

—El AnatsuiSculptor & Artist

Contemporary ERA • West Africa

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No excellent company can be created without excellent culture and excellent people.

—Zhang RuiminAuthor & Thinker

Late Modern ERA • East Asia

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Luxury is everywhere in proportion to the inequality of fortunes.

—MontesquieuPhilosopher

Enlightenment ERA • Western Europe

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The only real emancipation is to have a job, and earn your own living.

—Vera BrittainWriter & Feminist

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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A writer must have a place to write, a pen, paper, a table, and solitude.

—Ursula K. Le GuinAuthor

Late Modern ERA • North America

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Money is the water we swim in. Most of us don't know we're wet.

—Ayad AkhtarPlaywright & Novelist

Digital Age ERA • South Asia

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Capital is dead labour, which, vampire‑like, lives by sucking living labour.

—Karl MarxPhilosopher & Economist

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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Austerity is not an economic policy; it's a political choice.

—Naomi KleinAuthor & Activist

Contemporary ERA • North America

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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

—Honoré de BalzacNovelist

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.

—William ShakespearePlaywright & Poet

Renaissance ERA • Western Europe

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The king's strength is his army. The army's strength is the treasury. The treasury's strength is the people.

—KautilyaPhilosopher & Economist

Ancient World ERA • South Asia

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Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

—Gloria SteinemFeminist, Activist & Journalist

Digital Age ERA • North America

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It's not about money. It's about the people you have, and how you're led.

—Steve JobsEntrepreneur & Inventor

Late Modern ERA • North America

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The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

—Kahlil GibranPoet & Writer

Early Modern ERA • Middle East

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A poor man with a contented heart is richer than a king with a troubled mind.

—Saadi ShiraziPoet & Writer

Medieval ERA • MENA

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Even if you have the wealth of Karun, you will eventually go to the grave with nothing.

—Saadi ShiraziPoet & Writer

Medieval ERA • MENA

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

—Sholem AleichemAuthor

Industrial Age ERA • Eastern Europe

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