Top 100 Work Matters Quotes
#1. In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us.
Margaret Heffernan
#2. We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make ... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.
Michelle Obama
#3. Everyone wants to be paid well - I know that I certainly do. But there are lots of other satisfactions that we get from our work. To feel needed. To feel accomplishment. To believe that our work matters. Being a lawyer gives you a rare chance to experience that kind of success.
Jeffrey Toobin
#4. Your work matters a great deal to God, to others and to our world. There is no ordinary work. The work God has called you to do is extraordinary. Don't miss out on God's best by taking an ordinary approach to it.
Tom Nelson
#5. How hard you work matters more than how much you make.
Michelle Obama
#6. Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God.
Timothy Keller
#7. Use Time. Make it easy. Get your money to work for you. The key is to get in the market, as it is not about timing the market, but time in the market that matters.
Ann Wilson
#8. At a certain point, it's your ability to learn quickly and contribute quickly that matters.
Sheryl Sandberg
#9. My kids have been incredibly supportive of the work that I do. They understand why it matters.
Susan Rice
#10. What matters most to me is doing what I was elected to do: help make life better for Oregonians and making America work for working Americans again.
Jeff Merkley
#11. It [money] doesn't have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person. It doesn't. What matters is what you make. Whether it's a cake for bingo night or a costume for a saint or a wall of water
whatever you pour into this life is what makes you rich.
Adriana Trigiani
#12. Politicians - in both political parties - spend too much money. And they forget to focus on what matters most: fixing the economic mess they created and putting people back to work.
Brad Wenstrup
#13. I always feel like I'm rehearsing. I'm a workaholic. But youve got to let go and trust and enjoy! I'm a real perfectionist. Its probably my biggest disadvantage. But as long as I can go out there, trust in the work and just have fun, thats what matters.
Nicole Scherzinger
#14. If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work
Seth Godin
#15. I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character work, really.
Rose Leslie
#16. Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a pell-mell work environment in which getting the order out the door is the only thing that matters.
James Surowiecki
#18. Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
#19. I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
Hamilton Jordan
#20. The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
Jesse Jackson
#22. Poh! doctor, one has only just to follow things along as they happen, and he can always work his way out of a scrape! The safest plan, you see, is to take matters as they come.
Jules Verne
#23. You know, in the realm of diplomacy, we are all bound to defend and promote our respective national interests. But, there is also such a thing as common interests: matters where our interests converge rather than diverge, compelling us to work together rather than against one another.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
#24. Damn you, Anaxantis. You and your brother were supposed to sit on your princely asses, organize the occasional banquet, use your high sounding titles to ravish the local girls, or boys, or sheep, whatever takes your fancy for all I care, and leave serious matters to your elders.
Andrew Ashling
#25. The people that are doing work that matters aren't doing work thats popular. They're just doing work that changes some people.
Seth Godin
#26. It's normal to sit down with a few negative feelings about beginning your work. It's how you handle those feelings that matters.
Barbara Oakley
#27. I am fortunate enough to have worked on, and continue to work on, evolutionary movies in all formats from just simple good story telling, which still matters most of all, to CG movies to tent-pole size 3D movies, and genre 3D movies like 'Piranha 3D.'
Mark Canton
#28. These golden matters Of Gyges and his treasuries Are no concern of mine. Jealousy has no power over me, Nor do I envy a god his work, And I do not burn to rule. Such things have no Fascination for my eyes.
Archilochus
#29. Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.
Seth Godin
#30. What matters most to me? To work with my model until I have it enough in me to be able to improvise, to let my hand run free ...
Henri Matisse
#31. Fame is a by-product. It's not a goal. What matters is loving your work and loving what you do
Madonna Ciccone
#32. You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters.
James Dashner
#33. There is something beyond freedom that people need: work, love, belief in something, commitment to something. Freedom is not enough.It's necessary but it'd not sufficient. It's what you do with freedom - what you give it up for - that matters
Lev Grossman
#34. What matters to me is my own estimation, and I'm very tough on myself. I need to be proud of what I've done and I work hard for it. I had a very Christian upbringing ... lots of guilt. A good thing, It keeps you sane.
Jean Dujardin
#35. When you work with new people, I think that it throws all of the matters into relief, because you have to explain yourself every time. It's like crossing a new border. They want to see your documents.
Elvis Costello
#36. The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?
Alva Noto
#37. It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Seneca.
#38. It doesn't matter if anyone reads it, buys it, sponsors it or shares it. It matters that you show up.
Seth Godin
#39. Feelings are facts. Look straight at 'em and deal with 'em. Work it through, as honestly as you can. If God is anything like a middle-class white chick from the suburbs, which I admit is a long shot, it's what you do about what you feel that matters.
Mary Doria Russell
#40. I used to panic and get rattled when I was young, but as I've got older, I've started literally to live day to day. With age, you work out what matters.
Joanna Lumley
#42. The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers
of persistence, concentration, and insight
to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems. make art, think deeply.
Susan Cain
#43. When I was young, I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters: a family, a business and a good name. I was raised to believe in hard work, in faith and family. My dad, Ed Pence, was a combat veteran in Korea.
Mike Pence
#44. What matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it
a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial.
Italo Calvino
#45. you are trained for job but you are born to work.Exert then your energy in the right proportion on the most vital matters
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#46. If you're going to devote the best years of your life to your work, have enough love for yourself and the world around you to work on something that matters to you deeply
Justin Rosenstein
#47. One always imagines things happen in hot blood,' he said. 'An ill-considered remark starts a row. Hard words follow, misunderstandings. Matters that can be put right in the end. Unfortunately life doesn't work out like that. First of all there is no row, secondly, nothing can be put right.
Anthony Powell
#48. When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people's hearts to work at prayer by a kind of gracious instinct. He stirs them up and moves their hearts by the influence of his Holy Spirit.
Thomas Goodwin
#49. To create your best work, you'll have to make room for it. You'll have to cut out the excess noise and focus on what really matters:
Jeff Goins
#50. Most people view female directors as female only, that we only deal with women's issues and women characters. Although most of my films have dealt with women, I do have work that deals with other matters, and I'm always open to different stories regardless of gender.
Shahad Ameen
#51. Policy makers and business leaders take note: money matters. But often the best use of money as a motivator is to pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table - so that people can focus on the work rather than on the cash.
Daniel H. Pink
#52. When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.
Paige Craig
#53. We mustn't live like those with "little faith" who compromise for the sake of food and clothing. What we do matters. And not every job is a good job.
Voddie T. Baucham Jr.
#54. To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work, I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor; it's the work that matters.
Jimmy Wales
#55. It does not matter where you are standing right now, what matters is where you are headed to.
Sanchita Pandey
#56. Playing an icon [superman], you don't try to be an icon because that defeats the purpose. The responsibility attached is enormous, and the realization that it actually really, really matters meant that I wanted to put the most amount of work into representing the character properly.
Henry Cavill
#57. It is not the place where we are, or the work that we do or cannot do that matters, it is something else. It is the fire within that burns and shines, whatever be our circumstances.
Amy Carmichael
#58. I'm a big fan of unflinching drama and bold drama. If you shy away from dark subject matters, there's only certain places for TV drama to go. If there are shows that can break through that and be brave, those are the shows that I personally enjoy watching. I try and do work that I would watch.
Joe Dempsie
#59. Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
Joseph Conrad
#60. We do not work for unity; we work to end and erase disunity. Unity is of God; disunity is of man. In matters of doctrine and practice of conscience, our guide should be this traditional saying: In essentials, unity. In nonessentials, liberty. But in all things, love.
Mike Timmis
#61. The good news is that more than ever, value accrues to those that show up, those that make a difference, those that do work that matters.
Seth Godin
#62. When a person is determined to not just succeed but to do work that matters, the world makes room for such ambition.
Jeff Goins
#63. We package everything as a product so we can derive income from it. Then we can occupy ourselves with higher-order psychological lifestyle things. This is a very new issue. Money still matters, but other factors have joined the status game - like how interesting, how meaningful your work is.
Tino Sehgal
#64. I'm one of those actors who says, "Point me toward the work that matters to me and I don't care where you're putting it. Television show. Movie. Projected on the back of someone's garage." If that's where the work is that's exciting to me and moving, I want to be there.
David Oyelowo
#65. I am saying that I was able to mold those hours around the needs of my family, and that matters. And I really encourage other people at Facebook to mold hours around themselves.
Sheryl Sandberg
#66. Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'
Freeman Patterson
#67. Your work life is divided into two distinct areas - what matters most and everything else. You will have to take what matters to the extremes and be okay with what happens to the rest. Professional success requires it.
Gary W. Keller
#68. Learn and train yourself to take the hits in life. Obstacles, barriers and setbacks will come. What matters is how you tackle them, work your way around or find your way through them.
Roopleen
#69. There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.
Leo Buscaglia
#70. Once the industry has been pared to its essence and its essentials, once we determine what matters most and needs protection, once we find the means to support that work, then journalism can grow again.
Jeff Jarvis
#71. The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
Seth Godin
#72. You can't make people work harder. People have to want to work hard and make a difference. Purpose matters.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#73. Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.
William Osler
#74. When leaders know how to lead great meetings, there's less time wasted and less frustration. We have more energy to do the work that matters, realize our full potential, and do great things.
Justin Rosenstein
#75. The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
Steven Pressfield
#76. 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.
Ray Dalio
#77. If there was ever a moment to follow your passion and do work that matters, this is it.
Seth
#79. What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.
Emil Nolde
#80. Let us remember that the central reality must be sought in the writer's work: it is what the writer chose to write, or was compelled to write, that finally matters. And certainly Mishima's carefully premeditated death is part of his work.
Yukio Mishima
#81. In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.
Condoleezza Rice
#82. I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.
Andrea Hirata
#83. Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters.
Donald Miller
#84. When a man's life becomes poetry, becomes a song, becomes a work of art, a creativity, he has become a sannyasin. Whether he knows it or not, it does not matter. The word 'sannyas' does not matter; what matters is the content.
Rajneesh
#85. I take it for granted that there's a side of me that loves public action, and there's another side of me that really wants to be alone and work and write. And I've learned to alternate the two as matters develop.
Norman Mailer
#86. Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.
Mary Oliver
#87. It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.
Larry Page
#88. ... They used the fail-safe method for undergraduate work at any solid institution: take two utterly unrelated things or matters and show that they are, if not in fact identical, actually related in the most profound and subtle sense.
Renata Adler
#89. It is not the greatness of the work which matters to God but the love with which it is done.
Brother Lawrence
#90. Every day matters. I think so. I do. But I really have to work to force myself to see its value sometimes.
Danny Gregory
#91. To lend each other a hand when we're falling, perhaps that's the only work that matters in the end.
Brennan Manning
#92. I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.
Sally Field
#93. The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. - Steve Jobs
Clayton M Christensen
#94. A model's opinion seldom matters. The only time that he is required to open his mouth is when he is required to smile at the camera.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#95. Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
Kris Kristofferson
#96. I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all that matters is their work.
Matt Mullenweg
#97. Clearly drive, IQ, and hard work are incredibly important. But ultimately what matters most is resilience
the ability to quickly rebound from failures, indeed to see failure as a stepping stone to success.
Arianna Huffington
#98. We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.
Bill Clinton
#99. I just think it's a great world to tell stories in, to tell cool stories: money, sex, fame, and scandal. Those are great subject matters to work with.
James Frey
#100. In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.
C. G. Jung
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