Work For The Common Good Quotes

#1. In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the common good, and build community.

Joseph C. Rost

#2. There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Woodrow Wilson

#3. Share your enthusiasm with the collector's enthusiasm for the work, and discover things together. Be nice and appreciative and at the same time give them the hint that you're a winner so they believe they've made a good investment. It's simple common sense ...

Mark Kostabi

#4. I think one thing we went through was common to a lot of people: You work your whole life to achieve something, then you achieve it and find out that you still have good days and bad days. So you start thinking, 'Is that all there is?' After a while you calm down and get back to work.

Elliot Easton

#5. Through their teachings they dignify even the most mundane professions. According to them any profession or work that adds to the common good of man must be respected and it is dignified

Sunday Adelaja

#6. Can we imagine a different world? I can. That's a world where work is rational, it's in the common good, and we're actually producing real things rather than spinning our wheels in dreams of consumer heaven.

Bill Ayers

#7. I stare at her. I've always known that it's impossible to argue with Belinda, not because she's particularly good at it, but because she's so bad at it- that there is no common ground to work from. She simply sees the world she wants to see it and no amount of logic can change her mind.

Rick Yancey

#8. When you desire the common good, the whole world desires with you. Make humanity's desire your own and work for it. There you cannot fail.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#9. The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.

William J. Clinton

#10. We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.

Jonathan Sacks

#11. Leadership is the ability to get individuals to work together for the common good and the best possible results while at the same time letting them know they did it themselves.

John Wooden

#12. A nation can be mighty, when the citizens put away their political differences, work together for a common vision, a common goal and a common good.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Humanism inspires a lot of enthusiasm for everyday life and urges people to be better to one another, to work towards a better future and a common good. If I believed there was an afterlife I would have so much less motive for filling this life with every experience that is offered up to me.

Stephen Fry

#14. No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.

Thomas Carlyle

#15. Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who will work hard enough to bring them about.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#16. Spend not the remnant of thy days in thoughts and fancies concerning other men, when it is not in relation to some common good, when by it thou art hindered from some other better work.

Marcus Aurelius

#17. Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good.

James Hunter

#18. I usually work with the director and it's just a collaboration between me and the one person. I think you make good movies that way. If the director and the composer can have this common goal and this excitement about making something great, then you're going to do something good.

Howard Shore

#19. The goal of work is not to gain wealth and possessions, but to serve the common good and bring glory to God.

Richard J. Foster