Good Work Quotes - Page 11

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

  Susan George

  Party, Political, Development

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• Every time you think of doing some charity, you think there is some beggar to take your charity. If you say, "O Lord, let the world be full of charitable people!" - you mean, let the world be full of beggars also. Let the world be full of good works - let the world be full of misery. This is out-and-out slavishness!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it. One looks for name and fame and covers his efforts to obtain them with the enamel of charity and good works. He is working for himself under the pretext of working for others. Every so-called charity is an encouragement of the very evil it claims to operate against.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Encouragement, Names, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2593, Manonmani Publishers

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• It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Soul, Appearance, Should

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• We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive it only by the beams, light and heat. Election is a sun, the eyes of eagles cannot see it, yet we may find it in the heat of vocation, in the light of illumination, in the beams of good works.

  Thomas Adams

  Eye, What Matters, Light

  Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.117

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• We put pride into everything like salt. We like to see that our good works are known. If our virtues are seen, we are pleased; if our faults are perceived, we are sad. I remark that in a great many people; if one says anything to them, it disturbs them, it annoys them. The saints were not like that - they were vexed if their virtues were known, and pleased that their imperfections should be seen.

  John Vianney

  Pride, People, Imperfection

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• All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Work, Done, Littles

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• The good works that really matter require the help of heaven. And the help of heaven requires working past the point of fatigue so far that only the meek and lowly will keep going long enough. The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a grade; he does it because the process will change us.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Past, Long, Giving

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• Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials

  Parker Stevenson

  Play, Done, Television

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• On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence that our good confession was not phony. It’s in this sense that we must be holy.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Looks, Lasts, Good Enough

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• Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life. If you're the latter, keep up the good work.

  George Lois

  Jobs, People, Good Job

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• Charity is the root of all good works.

  Saint Augustine

  Roots, Charity

  Saint Augustine (1992). “Sermons 148-183 on the New Testament”, p.310, New City Press

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• Most of us want to have enough... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun.

  Rick Warren

  Fun, Heaven, Want

  "This Week", abcnews.go.com. April 8, 2012.

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• 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

  Successful, Cities, Expansion

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• The RNC has made a concerted effort to work with their allies with a real focus on what we can do to equip candidates with the resources to win in 2014 and beyond. There isn't a week that goes by that I don't see someone from the RNC at our weekly coalition meeting. Keep up the good work.

  Grover Norquist

  Real, Winning, Opportunity

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• True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness. Those who trust in their own righteousness for conversion hide behind their own good works. This is the reason that self-righteous people are so angry with gospel preachers, because the gospel does not spare those who will not submit to the righteousness of Jesus Christ!

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Mean, Self

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• I had to create some good work habits and attitude.

  S. Truett Cathy

  Attitude, Habit, Work Habits

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• In praise of Thy goodness I must confess that Thou didst try with all Thy means to draw me to Thee. Sometimes it pleased Thee to let me feel the heavy hand of Thy displeasure and to humiliate my proud heart by manifold castigations. Sickness and misfortune didst Thou send upon me to turn my thoughts to my errantries.-One thing, only, O Father, do I ask: cease not to labor for my betterment. In whatsoever manner it be, let me turn to Thee and become fruitful in good works.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Father, Mean, Heart

  Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1964). “Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.

  Yanni

  Work, Long, Enough Time

  Yanni, David Rensin (2003). “Yanni in Words”, Miramax Books

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• [Americans know] the traditional values of Islam, devotion to faith and good works, to family and society, are in harmony with the best of American ideals.

  William J. Clinton

  Islam, Harmony, Devotion

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• Our expectation of the gratitude of others for what we've done for them is sometimes exaggerated because of our deep desire for appreciation and approval. When our good work or good deeds go unrewarded by hoped for praise, we feel like failures so we treat those who denied us our due as betrayers.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Expectations

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• Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Good Morning, People, Should

  Chetan Bhagat (2009). “2 States: The Story of My Marriage”, p.169, Sandesh S

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• Girded with faith and the performance of good works, let us follow in his [Jesus] paths by the guidance of the Gospel.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Jesus, Catholic, Path

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• I'm not exceptionally fast or overly powerful. But I have a good work ethic, and I make up for it by using technique and trying to be smarter.

  Dot Richardson

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Real, Intellectual, Intelligence

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