Top 1200 Meaningful Work Quotes & Sayings

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

Synchronicity...means a 'meaningful coincidence' of outer and inner events that are not themselves causally connected. The emphasis lies on the word 'meaningful'.

The most important lesson I've learned is how rich and rewarding life is when one can engage in meaningful work, whether on the job or outside of work.

Critics should find meaningful work.

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

In the end, what matters most is that the people you work with share your values, so I've wanted people who value the meaningful work and meaningful relationships that always motivated me in building Bridgewater.

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

It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.

It's interesting to work with what's important today, which is meaningful for our everyday lives.

Hopefully, at the end of all this, my music is going to be used as a tool to help people have meaningful conversations and meaningful relationships with themselves and with other people and with God.

I'm excited to work in Bollywood, but I want to be part of meaningful projects.

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

For most people, life would be boring without meaningful work.

We were created for meaningful work, and one of life's greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done.

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

I'm looking for conversations that will be meaningful with people that want to have meaningful connections with an audience.

Relationships can't blossom unless there is meaningful communication. That's why 'supplication is the key to worship.' It is a sign of meaningful communication between God and a person.

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

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

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.

Meaningful work is very different than drudgery.

The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity.

The meaningful work and the meaningful relationships are, to me, comparable rewards. I think being on a mission to do something great is great, and to be on that mission with people who you have really meaningful relationships with not only provides both types of rewards, but it's mutually supportive. Because you can have tough love, but there's also the love part of that in terms of the caring for each other, and when you have the caring you can be tougher on each other. Some people describe it as an intellectual Navy Seals.

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.

The meaningful times, the meaningful people, even the people who were not so meaningful, but these people who have done things in your life that make you what you are, they're bricks in the building that you are.

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.

A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.

I think everyone is always asking themselves, How is my work meaningful, how is my life meaningful? As I get older, I feel like who I am as a person and a citizen is more important than who I am in my work. But I do think it reframed slightly for me, how much I have to care about a project in order to want to do it. Sometimes, obviously, you have a take a job for money. But I think I'm quicker now when I get a script that's, say, borderline misogynist, I'm not going to go in for it. I'm thinking more about what I'm putting into the world.

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 fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck.

How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.

To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.

I am willing to let go. I release others to experience whatever is meaningful to them, and I am free to create that which is meaningful to me.

As a young boy growing up in Rohtak, India, I had no idea what my life's work would be. But my parents instilled in me something that I have never forgotten: that work must have a sense of purpose beyond mere financial gain; that to be meaningful, work should make a positive and lasting difference in the lives of others.

Content is the meaningful substance of the work.

When, who, and what things happen to becomes meaningful, then what happens starts to matter, and play can evoke strong emotions, fierce and ongoing urges to succeed, and a desire to leave a mark, drive meaningful change, or build lasting institutions.

The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.

Presumably, what you want to do is work on something meaningful and significant with people you really admire.

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.

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

Starting with the values that feel authentic to who you are can serve as a compass to find more meaningful, fulfilling work.

Some critics could argue that club or fun pop-y dance music isn't meaningful, when it totally is. All different types of music are meaningful depending on what people are going through in their lives at any given moment.

My conscious decision has always been to do work that's meaningful and play characters that give something to the film.

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

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.

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.

Meaningful work is within your grasp.

It does not matter how much we donate; it matters whether the donation is meaningful. How to define meaningful? Let society and history judge.

We had pathetically simple dreams: to do meaningful work that we could be proud of, to be together, and to be happy.

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.

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

I like to be spoken about only when I am doing meaningful work.

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

It's not even a question of whether the universe is meaningful or meaningless. It's in what way could it be meaningful, or in what way, if it was meaningful, could that be even more meaningless than normal meaninglessness?

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

Create quality art.... meaningful, passionate and high quality work! If it's not meaningful to you, how can you expect it to be meaningful to anyone else?

Your intuition will tell you where you need to go; it will connect you with people you should meet; it will guide you toward work that is meaningful for you - work that brings you joy, work that feels right for you.

I think Facebook has a lot of work to do to make sure people are seeing meaningful things and not garbage.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.