Good Work Quotes

Whether you’re looking for a boost of positivity to kickstart your day or some words of encouragement to keep you going on your professional journey, you’ve come to the right place. In this curated selection of quotes, you’ll find pearls of wisdom and insight from renowned thinkers, leaders, and visionaries who have shared their thoughts on the value of hard work, dedication, and the pursuit of excellence.

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I suppose in the long run, it’s the good work that outlasts the shoddy work, but there’s enough room for all kinds of writing. Ruskin Bond

I don’t think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they’re religious, if they’re doing good work. But government can’t subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can’t. Jim Wallis

I believe that working with good people matters because then the work environment is good. If there is a sense of respect and belief among the people you work with, that is when good work is done. Ranbir Kapoor

You’re not going to do good work if you’re not choosing something because it inspires you. Maggie Gyllenhaal

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble. Jack Kemp

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

There are a lot of people doing good work, but we need to get the burning of fossil fuels off the highways and speedways of the world, so that we’ll step up on global warming. John B. Goodenough

Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons! Christine Lahti

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. Elbert Hubbard

It’s amazing, the quality of good work that happened in the fifties when a series would have to turn out 30-some episodes a season – it’s amazing that ‘I Love Lucy’ was as good as it was! Vince Gilligan

So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work? Jackie Cooper

College is something I’ve always said I wanted to do, but you’re going there to get a piece of paper that says you can get a job, but if I’m already working steadily and doing good work, it makes you question your priorities. Right now, I’m in my own film college: filming a TV show. Gaten Matarazzo

It’s a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people. Mark Harmon

When you do good work, people will notice you. Ram Kapoor

Don’t worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you. Ice Cube

But I want to do good work, after this series. Jackie Cooper

The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work. Francis Ford Coppola

Ekta Kapoor believed that I would do good work and allowed me to explore. I had that support system. Mrunal Thakur

Whatever final judgment awaits ‘Bush v. Gore’ in the annals of history, I am certain that the good work and good faith of the U.S. federal judiciary as a whole will continue to sustain public confidence at a level never beyond repair. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing. Cyril Connolly

I appreciate good work no matter where it’s coming from. LP

Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi. Anurag Kashyap

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits. Twyla Tharp

Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more. Edward H. Harriman

I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open. Benjamin Bratt

I don’t have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours. Janeane Garofalo

You can do good work simply staying up all night and eating nothing but junk food, but probably not in the long term. John Mulaney

The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly, and that’s happened. But I didn’t become an actress for the money. I do it for other reasons. Angela Bassett

It’s very exciting to be able to just work in this business, let alone on stuff you are extremely proud of. So it does make me a little nervous, because ‘Breaking Bad’ is so special. It’s great being part of something so great because people pay attention to you, hopefully because you’re doing good work. Aaron Paul

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

I really like doing good work and working with good people – that’s the thing that drives me. Giles Deacon

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil’s traps for artists. Logan Pearsall Smith

Let’s put it this way: I don’t have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours. I don’t understand why, in entertainment, the hours are as long as they are. It seems like everything takes forever, and no one can tell you why, exactly. Janeane Garofalo

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work. Paul Simon

I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding. Jackie Cooper

I’m not hungry for success. I am only hungry for good work, and that is how it is with most superstars. Every day I tell myself how fortunate I am to be where I am. Akshay Kumar

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful – to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister. Thorstein Veblen

There is a great deal of reward when you do good work and people see how successful that work is and the happiness it brings to them. Naveen Patnaik

I’m very sensitive about the fact that there’s not a lot of good work for women in cinema that also deals with strong characters. But ‘strong character’ doesn’t mean ‘masculine character’ – but something that finds the strength in femininity and the beauty in femininity. And something that says you can find femininity in men in some way. Denis Villeneuve

It’s impossible to feel the creative juices flowing if you’re always worried about the end result. I think really, really good work comes out of people being quite open, not stressed, really exploring, trying to be imaginative, without worrying too much about the end result. Marianne Elliott

I don’t see myself in competition with anyone, I am in my own space; I don’t follow anyone, though I appreciate good work always. Guru Randhawa

Knowing that we were doing good work and the stories were good. They were original and charming. They weren’t particularly violent or sexy or any of that. They were just unique and that had a good feel to it. Derek Jacobi

Yes, I have done a few things like always, worked immensely hard, always respected people, admired good work, and never let success blow my top off; probably this has worked in my favour. Guru Randhawa

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

My ideal day would be to get a good work out in, listen to music, talk to my family and friends on the phone, read and go to a good movie. Steve Nash

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

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work. Don Nickles

Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards. David Soul

I am thankful that my career didn’t see a road block due to my marriage, which in some cases we have heard that women can’t do good work after marriage and that’s not true. Amrapali Gupta

I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work. Karen Black

Acting is one industry that is very difficult to plan for. I’d like to continue to do good work. Joe Cole

I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good. Jon Favreau

Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life. Tyler Perry

Inspiration is one thing and you can’t control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work. Kevin Eubanks

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

I am thankful to Fenerbahce for the opportunity that they gave me and I believe that I repaid their faith with good work on the pitch. Zico

‘Black Mirror,’ I read that, and I had another offer for a movie at the same time that was a bigger movie, an actual film as opposed to TV, but I said, ‘No, it has to be Black Mirror.’ And it hadn’t been sold to Netflix, hadn’t gone abroad at that point – but it’s just good work – that’s all there is to it. Domhnall Gleeson

I just want to be happy, have kids, enjoy my life, help others and create some good work. David Walliams

Most good work is a combination of parts you love and parts you could do better. My constant mantra is, ‘Next time, next time, next time.’ Abi Morgan

You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things. Jon Stewart

It’s not enough to just have talent at Atletico Madrid. At other clubs it is, but we can’t sign superstars and have to look for players with a good work ethic. Diego Simeone

If you do good work, it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say, ‘The Ref’ is my favorite Christmas movie.’ Denis Leary

I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do. Scott Caan

I just want to continue to produce good work. I don’t want to do junk. David Cassidy

In America, we like everyone to know about the good work we’re doing anonymously. Jay Leno

All the good work in the world will not compensate for the damage that a single facet of the business, or a rogue individual, can do. Insider trading, environmental damage, human-rights violations, and opportunistic practices erode trust and result in net negative impact. Punit Renjen

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work. Elbert Hubbard

All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth. Paramahansa Yogananda

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

The old and honorable idea of ‘vocation’ is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted. Wendell Berry

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted. Olive Schreiner

When I joined the music scene, a lot of big-ticket singers were not getting good work… It was a lean phase. Arijit Singh

After kids, the desire to improve as an actor remains, but time becomes hugely important. I want to do good work and do it well but then be at home. I love hanging out with my children, seeing how they behave, and stealing ideas off them. You can’t do that if you’re in a hotel, on a plane, or a film set. It’s not real life. Cillian Murphy

I try to keep in mind that it’s a long journey. It’s not a race. It’s about staying focused, continuing to do good work, make my family and community proud; that’s all I really want to do… and pay my bills. Gina Rodriguez

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

Talent is given by God but you should respect it by doing good work. Johnny Lever

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy. Wislawa Szymborska

Quite frankly, I didn’t become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work. Anne Hathaway

I’ve never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job. William Petersen

Part of doing good work is caring deeply about it, believing in what you’re doing, and getting incredibly attached to the characters that you’re playing, the stories you’re telling, and the people you’re working with. Ari Graynor

I don’t think I’m going to do any good work this morning. David O. Selznick

Randy said I could call him for anything, Paula said that she loved me and said how much of a star I was. Simon was like, keep up the good work and I’ll have nothing to worry about. LaToya London

The important thing is to do good work, no matter what medium you do it in. Roy Scheider

The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too. Susan George

I’m always going to be hungry to get good work. Esha Deol

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly. Natasha Richardson

There are instances where, in my mid to late 20s, I very often found myself going for roles that they didn’t want to cast me in, because I’d done good work, but in a producer’s eyes, I wasn’t high enough status. So I lost out. Robert Sheehan

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

What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone’s ringing a lot more and I’ve got nine lines so when it doesn’t ring, it’s very frustrating. Bob Saget

The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s. Martin Filler

I think I’ve matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it’s not about the celebrity status that you receive because you’re doing the next hot movie. It’s about doing good work. Emilio Estevez

Right now, I’d like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies. Mario Lopez

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

The objects you decide to keep, the ones that gave you the spark of joy? Treasure them from now on. When you put things away, you can actually audibly say, ‘Hey, thank you for the good work today…’ By doing so, it becomes easier for you to put the objects away and treasure them, which prolongs the spark of joy environment. Marie Kondo

Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected. Edgar Lee Masters

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

I just want to do good work. Tracey Ullman

I was living in London and I thought, ‘There’s nothing here for me anymore.’ I don’t want to become this actor who’s going to be doing this occasional good work in the theater and then ever diminishing bad television. I thought I’d rather do bad movies than bad television because you get more money for it. Brian Cox

You only do good work when you’re taking risks and pushing yourself. Sally Hawkins

The number one thing I look for is personality. For me, the personality of someone makes them more and more attractive over time … and for those with bad personalities, less and less attractive. I look for honesty, intelligence, kindness, and a good work ethic, to name a few. Manika

Anton Usov

I am Anton Usov, an educator with a passion for quotes that resonate with the human experience. Over many years, I have curated a collection that reflects wisdom and emotions across time. Join me in exploring the power of words to inspire and enlighten our paths.

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