Top 100 Quotes About Good Work
#1. Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.
John D. Rockefeller
#2. Work, especially good work, becomes easy only when desire has learned to discipline itself.
Rabindranath Tagore
#3. Let not the wise disturb the mind of the unwise in their selfish work. Let him, working with devotion, show them the joy of good work.
Anonymous
#5. I am planning the release of 2NE1's new album for after CL finishes her solo activities. 2NE1 will surely show you good work until the expiration of their contracts.
Yang Hyun-suk
#6. I suspect that these traits-desire, commitment, and good work habits-are important in all facets of our lives ...
LaVell Edwards
#7. Good work, Eddie, I thought. You may have just helped get the girl of your dreams back together with her boyfriend.
Richelle Mead
#8. I'm just looking for good work. I just really love acting, and I'd like to jump on something that's really exciting for me.
Noel Fisher
#9. As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.
Gautama Buddha
#10. Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.
Bono
#11. You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#12. I was watching the last season of 'Mad Men,' and they're now so in their characters and they're so comfortable in their characters, and they're doing such good work. That can only happen from doing it over and over, and developing a character over seven years.
James Frain
#13. Byron clapped Walter on the back. 'Good work,' he said.
Walter shook his head. 'You're the one who clocked her with the Stephen King hardcover. That took some of the wind out of her.'
'Thank heavens he's a wordy man,' said Byron.
Michael Thomas Ford
#14. Every actor has to find space where they are free, in order to do good work.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
#16. You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
#17. The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.
Odilon Redon
#18. When I was young, I liked to be acknowledged in class by little gestures such as a small red star for doing something good. Now that I'm older, I still want to be acknowledged for good work.
Chen Guangbiao
#19. What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#20. Like tornadoes and cold sores, good work happens with total disregard to whether I'm 'into it.'
Merlin Mann
#21. I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.
Randall Park
#22. I want to continue doing good work where we can expand opportunities for all Americans. That's what we're fighting for.
Steve Scalise
#23. Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.
Justin Theroux
#24. Rock n' roll is our religion, and we will continue to lose disciples as we go, but we pick up the fallen flag and keep moving forward, bringing forth the good news that our heroes have helped create, their bodies lost, but their spirits and their good work everlasting.
Steven Van Zandt
#26. I want to do good work. I want the opportunity to work with good people, and the only way I'm gonna do that is to commit 110% - you get out what you put in.
Christian Bale
#27. It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.
David Cassidy
#28. You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
Yanni
#29. Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
Lord Byron
#30. Too little process and you can't get good work done. Too much process and you can't get any work done. Most companies never find the middle.
Aaron Levie
#31. It doesn't matter what medium I perform, I just love to perform in general, if it's good work.
Heather Matarazzo
#32. We always want to live in an environment where there's no artificial block to good work.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#33. I absolutely refuse the fame part of my business. I refuse even the money side of my business. I try to do as good work as I can do, I try to grow in my art and reach for truth. That's what I want from my art, that's what I aspire to.
Connie Nielsen
#34. 'Saturday Night Live' is a very particular beast. What it celebrates are individuals who can stand out. I did good work there, but going onstage and saying, 'Hey! Hey! Look at me! Aren't I funny?' - that just wasn't my instinct.
Chris Parnell
#36. I just want to do good work. That's all I want to do. I don't have big aspirations like being the President of the United States, I just want to do good work. That's all.
Frank Oz
#37. For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#38. Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who have touched them in any way.
Lord Kelvin
#39. Having a good director is very important. It's crucial. When you do good work with a certain director, you want to work with them again, and hopefully vice versa.
Giles Matthey
#41. If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools.
Confucius
#42. PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.
Diane Wakoski
#43. There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
Jack Kemp
#44. Planned Parenthood does some very good work. But I would defund as long as they're doing abortions.
Donald Trump
#45. The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.
Patti Smith
#46. Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Anonymous
#47. As much I love to imagine being alone in an orderly lab, I also know you can't stay in there forever and expect to do good work. Life is one of those experiments meant to be conducted in a stimulating, messy environment.
Sara Zarr
#48. There seems to be a notion in Hollywood that if you want to make money, you have to sacrifice doing good work with integrity. And I think that's bullshit. I think that's an excuse, and it's what people say who are scared that they can't do good work.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#49. I'm not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. There's good storytelling in all the genres, you know. I just want to tell good stories and do good work.
Angela Bettis
#50. In America, we like everyone to know about the good work we're doing anonymously.
Jay Leno
#51. All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.
Duane Michals
#52. I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
Claude Monet
#53. I think having healthy relationships makes me feel much more confident and available to do good work as an actor.
Rose McIver
#54. When people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work. Kill the grimness with laughter. Encourage exuberance. Get rid of sad dogs that spread gloom.
David Ogilvy
#55. I don't even know what a traditional producer is or does. I feel like the job is like being a coach, building good work habits and building trust. You want to get to a point where you can say anything and talk about anything. There needs to be a real connection.
Rick Rubin
#56. Wendell Berry in "Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer." "I do not see that computers are bringing us one step nearer to anything that does matter to me: peace, economic justice, ecological health, political honesty, family and community stability, good work." Ethan
Mark Sundeen
#57. The group will not prosper if the leader grabs the lion's share of the credit for the good work that has been done.
Laozi
#58. He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." That good work begins in relationship to Jesus and is brought to completion within an ever-deepening union with him.
Timothy S. Lane
#59. Sometimes it's hard to say no. Ultimately, if you stick to your guns, you have the career that you want. Don't get me wrong. I love a good payday and I'll do films for fun. But ultimately my main goal is to do good work. If it doesn't pay well, so be it.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#60. Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town.
Herschel Walker
#61. My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is not as important to me.
Bryan Cranston
#62. There's only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation.
Andrew Loomis
#64. But the very voices that cry hail to this good work are, strange to relate, largely silent or antagonistic to the higher education of the Negro.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#66. Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain, you may be doing some good work.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
#67. My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.
Ian Hart
#68. One thing work gives
is the joy of not working,
a minute here or there
when I stand and only breathe,
receiving the good of the air.
It comes back. Good work done
comes back into the mind,
a free breath drawn.
Wendell Berry
#69. I'm much more comfortable in a meritocracy and in reward for good work as opposed to a political environment, where I feel like all of that can be confused.
Desiree Rogers
#70. No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come
Anonymous
#71. Gemini....You revere scientists and shamans alike,
providing them with what they need to do their good work for the enhancement of the realm."
(Rob Brezsny)
Lesley Thomas
#72. Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.
Twyla Tharp
#73. Happy we were the, for we had a good house, and good food and good work.
Richard Llewellyn
#74. I am sure of this, that He who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:6
Beth Moore
#75. Do good work and let that speak for itself. Don't waste time arguing with someone. Instead, show them in your work. That's easier said than done, but it really is the best solution. No one can argue with good work.
Megan Alexander
#76. It's not my style to either wear minimum clothes, to strip, or to even be comfortable with a sex-symbol label. I just want to do good work instead of sporting such meaningless tags. Sex sells, but to a small extent, not always. And this is what filmmakers have to accept.
Katrina Kaif
#78. There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.
Wendell Berry
#79. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.
Anonymous
#80. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. (2 Tim. 3:16-17)
Mel Lawrenz
#81. People who do good work often think that whatever they're working on is no good. Others see what they've done and think it's wonderful, but the creator sees nothing but flaws. This pattern is no coincidence: worry made the work good.
Paul Graham
#82. You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.
Wendell Berry
#83. It is certainly good to have fans but I am always focusing on the next thing and continuing to do good work. Onward and upward.
John Magaro
#84. I like Cinderella - she has a good work ethic and she likes shoes.
Amy Adams
#85. Good work last night, whiskey, too bad you can't make sleep as restful as you make it deep.
Imogen Binnie
#86. Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#88. How easy it is to let the depth of the ditch or the severity of the brokenness stop a good work before we even stoop down to do it.
Christine Caine
#89. It is by continuing to put out good work that the artist best shows his gratitude.
Criss Jami
#90. Honestly, I spend very little time thinking about past events, and I certainly don't have them ranked in any way. I look back and think that I have done a lot of good work over the years, but I am much more excited about what the future holds.
John Carmack
#91. And it's very hard to do this stuff too because there are so many effects movies being done, so many companies busy doing this work and the public just wants to see it. Good work is being done all over the world.
Dennis Muren
#92. I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.
Barbara Kruger
#93. Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.
Meher Baba
#94. You can't do good work on a short-term contract. You need to be engaged over a period of time.
Yves Behar
#95. When I am presented with good work, I accept it. Wherever it is.
Phylicia Rashad
#96. I want people to read good work. If I see someone reading a book by Lorrie Moore or Jennifer Egan, I'm psyched. If I see them reading X Latin American Writer Who Sucks, I'm not psyched. But in terms of news, I do think that's important.
Daniel Alarcon
#97. Soli Deo Gloria should be ascribed to every good work.
Duane Hewitt
#98. Anyway, that's why you do it. Not to be famous, just to be good. To do good work. Find the thing you really love doing, and do it to the best of your ability.
David Nicholls
#100. To me, it's about good work, a good story, and tastefully done. There's so many stigmas - oh, you're on the small screen or you do films or you do reality. It's about the project and not the medium on which it's delivered. It's the story you tell, period.
Keshia Knight Pulliam
