Quotes About Doing Meaningful Work

#1. When you don't have much money, cooking can be incredibly reassuring. You feel like you're doing meaningful work.

Alice Waters

#2. What makes work fun is doing meaningful work.

Darren Hardy

#3. Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.

Terry Gross

#4. Think about the work you already do. Is it meaningful & challenging? Are you appreciated & recognized for what you're doing?

Mani S. Sivasubramanian

#5. A relationship is hard in and of itself. And having kids is really hard work, but I think it's really meaningful, as is a relationship. But they all take work.

Joan Cusack

#6. 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.

Ray Dalio

#7. What keeps things going, what sustains families, what makes work meaningful, what contributes to our wellbeing and what really connects us to Nature is cooperation

Ed Mayo

#8. We didn't want to be presidents, or astronouts, or Bill Gates. We had pathetically simple dreams: to do meaningful work that we could be proud of, to be together, and to be happy. That certainly wasn't too much to ask. Or was it?

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#9. 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.

Arthur C. Brooks

#10. 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.

Kathleen Wynne

#11. With pure nature, money isn't necessary but meaningful to every one, including me, but i don't make it a principle rule because I can live without it.

Auliq Ice

#12. I have finally figured out the meaning of life: there's no such thing. And that's a beautiful thing, because that means that WE get to choose it ourselves. Life has no meaning besides the meaning you give it. You are indeed the author of your destiny. So why not write a book worth reading?

Dean Bokhari

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

Richard Branson

#14. If work is just going in every day and getting a check, it's an ugly life. When you can make work a meaningful purpose, you've hit the jackpot for people.

Jack Welch

#15. 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.

James C. Collins

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

Joan Cusack

#17. I've found that busting your ass on a daily basis to make your art good, clear, and meaningful creates the most luck.

Don Roff

#18. The first job of a leader - at work or at home - is to inspire trust. It's to bring out the best in people by entrusting them with meaningful stewardships, and to create an environment in which high-trust interaction inspires creativity and possibility.

Stephen M.R. Covey

#19. How your social network - the people that you know, or in your community - understand or value a work can be ... a tremendously relevant indicator of how important or meaningful it's going to be to you.

David Weinberger

#20. Work isn't meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.

Anthony Marra

#21. Human nature has been sold short ... [humans have] a higher nature which ... includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just, for doing what is worthwhile and for preferring to do it well.

Abraham Maslow

#22. 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.

Alan Ball

#23. Without meaningful work you might as well be dead.

Joanna Russ

#24. It is a great victory if you learn how to survive in today's hard times; it's an even greater victory if you
help someone else survive and find meaningful work.

Richard N. Bolles

#25. Make your life a meaningful one

Sunday Adelaja

#26. Work hard, work passionately, but apply your most precious asset - time - to what is most meaningful to you.

Randy Komisar

#27. DREAMS become more meaningful when you work toward them...My dreams are also my GOALS. What about yours?

A. King Bradley

#28. I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't want to weight them - it's a very curious thing.

Doseone

#29. We have the capacity to create a remarkably different economy: one that can restore ecosystems and protect the environment while bringing forth innovation, prosperity, meaningful work, and true security.

Paul Hawken

#30. Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it gladly. Because there is no work, love, knowledge, or wisdom in the grave.

Rutger Hauer

#31. Putting more heart into thinking creates better, bigger, and more meaningful ideas. And they don't come from just you but from people who have put their hearts into their work throughout their lives.

Joey Reiman

#32. in nearly three decades, these lower-income workers saw no meaningful gain in what they were paid for an hour of labor. Their overall inflation-adjusted income rose a bit, but mainly because they put in more hours of work.

Anonymous

#33. 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.

Susan Harris

#34. Meaningful work is within your grasp.

Dan Miller

#35. The companies that make meaningful contributions while also listening to the voices of others are the ones that will genuinely engage their community, who will then go to work for them.

Simon Mainwaring

#36. To do great work, you need to feel that you're making a difference. That you're putting a meaningful dent in the universe. That you are part of something important.

Jason Fried

#37. I just had a baby. I'm not going to work unless it's something really special and meaningful, because I can't imagine missing all that time with my daughter.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#38. I've come to see that you can limit God is different ways. You can limit Him by thinking he can never work in spectacular ways. But you can also limit Him by thinking that only the spectacular is meaningful."
- from "Dug Down Deep

Joshua Harris

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

Graham Hill

#40. I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.

River Phoenix

#41. The important thing is that you find some time every day to "break bread" with those you love most and consistently work at building a richer, more meaningful family life.

Robin S. Sharma

#42. Article XXVIII: Every newborn shall be sincerely welcomed and cared for until maturity. Article XXIX: Every adult who needs it shall be given meaningful work to do, at a living wage.

Kurt Vonnegut