Top 165 Good Work Quotes

I’ll walk around the city, and people will come up to me and say, ‘Hi,’ or ‘Keep up the good work,’ or whatever, and I’ll stop and talk to them.
Ryan Howard
Unfortunately we live in a world where I think women aren’t actively encouraged or at least not empowered to make good work in every creative sphere, particularly in comedy.
Rose Matafeo
There’s never a surefire good career move except doing good work.
Seth Green
It really feels special to know that ‘Irudhi Suttru’ has been selected to be screened at Tokyo Film Festival. I see this honor as an impetus to continue doing my good work.
Sudha Kongara
Good work is such an incredible payoff. And I know that I’ll be working until the end, because good work excites me.
Vanessa Williams
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
Edward H. Harriman
Right now I’m doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it’s a lot of good work. It’s fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
Aaron Spelling
I did a lot of good work with my trainer and the physio in Barbados, and they were tremendous help to me during my comeback period.
Fidel Edwards
In 2014, Modi’s name was there in the minds of people due to the good work he had done in Gujarat as chief minister. He made Gujarat one of the most developed states in India.
Yogi Adityanath
All religions must be made child-proof. Our teachers’ unions have done good work in this field, K through 12. Delaying first communions and bar mitzvahs until age 21 would be another positive step.
P. J. O’Rourke
I love growing old and if I get good work playing women of my age and talk about their issues and lives, I am happiest doing that.
Supriya Pathak
When I did ’21 Jump Street,’ I felt like I was a part of something great, but on a very large scale. Working with people that genuinely want to make good art or good work or a good film, that’s what keeps me going.
Spencer Boldman
I’m getting some really good work. And because I’m delivering what they want, more good work is coming my way.
Sanjay Dutt
When I joined the music scene, a lot of big-ticket singers were not getting good work… It was a lean phase.
Arijit Singh
I have no interest in doing anything other than good work.
Andrea Riseborough
I realized that work doesn’t beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.
Brady Corbet
I don’t have an exact picture of where I aim to see myself, but I want to do something which will be an example for everyone. If anyone is giving a reference for good work, then they should think of me.
Hiten Tejwani
I definitely am open to South Indian films. There is a lot of good work coming from these states and I would like to be a part in some of them.
Richa Chadha
Not much ever really comes of commissions, really. The last one that really came up with something truly concrete was the Warren Commission, and for all its good work, most Americans persist in believing that Oswald was working in tandem with the CIA, FBI, Lyndon Johnson, and the John Birch Society.
Christopher Buckley
When you have to do all the more crappy jobs before, you appreciate all the good work that comes out of that. There are many girls who immediately have a top model career, and there are lots of models who are doing things that aren’t as exciting as doing big campaigns and beautiful magazines.
Saskia de Brauw
There is an environment where someone is always looking for someone to make an error. They’re always looking not for the good things, the wonderful things the president and first lady are doing, they’re looking for an error or to criticize. And it’s not conducive to good work.
Desiree Rogers
Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.
Paul Simon
I want good work.
Demi Moore
I want to do good work. The first failure affected me. That is why I did ‘Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum.’
Neha Sharma
I just want to be happy, have kids, enjoy my life, help others and create some good work.
David Walliams
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
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
I do not need any rest. I enjoy my work, and at work, I rest. I rest with my good work.
Kiran Bedi
Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She’s a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband.
Anna Faris
When I am presented with good work, I accept it. Wherev

When I am presented with good work, I accept it. Wherever it is.
Phylicia Rashad
‘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
Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It’s about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.
Hugh Laurie
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
You can be playing a line some way and the director wants you to change that, or you can disagree. But I always think that the creative conversation between director and actor is what leads to good work.
Ewan McGregor
I hope each day to have done 10 seconds of good work that they can use in the film. And I’m always afraid I didn’t get those 10 seconds.
Louis Garrel
Eggs give me protein after a good work out. The cheesier, the better!
Shanola Hampton
If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.
J. K. Rowling
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
Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Of course, any work you do as a sporting person, a football coach or any coach, if it is good work, you’ve got to have something – a championship – to show for it.
Roy Hodgson
I want to be remembered for the good work that I’ve done, for the positive work, and as somebody who was innovative and who people enjoyed.
Evan Ross
I’m ready to do good work in good films.
Vishal Jethwa
You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.
Dev Anand
I am trying to pick roles that are interesting to me and are different so that I can continue to do good work.
Richa Chadha
I’m a very proud mother as Sanah has been getting lots of rave reviews. She has done good work and shown herself as a promising actress.
Supriya Pathak
I am waiting for some good work to come my way – whether it’s TV or films… As long as it catches my interest, I will take it.
Shamita Shetty
When you work on big commercial movies, of course there’s more money involved and you can still do some good work. But with an independent, you get films that are really close to the writers’ and directors’ heart. Somehow it becomes a little deeper. A little more meat and not as much flash.
Dennis Haysbert
What is good work? You just know it when you see it. You just can’t explain it.
Louise Wilson
I always wanted to do good work, but not in order to buy big houses and big cars. I just wanted to be ‘alright’, to have enough money to be able to live on, to go to the cinema when I wanted to, and buy the books I wanted to read.
Douglas Henshall
I love to drown myself in work. I pray to God to keep me busy and let me do good work.
Rithvik Dhanjani
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 think that when you are struggling as an actor, you imagine that if things were to pan out, everything in your life would change, But really, it’s not so different. You’re still pursuing good work. You still panic that you’re doing it all wrong.
Katherine Waterston
I think I am against stereotype. Generally, Asian guys are more quiet – they study and have a good work ethic. Generally, I have none of those things.
Bobby Lee
My characters are much more famous than I am, so I don’t crave attention; I just crave working and doing good work. Having a feeling of self-worth.
Kayvan Novak
There’s only so much I can do to effect change – and really, the thing that I can do that’s most effective is to work and to do good work. That, I feel, is speaking out in its own way.
John Cho
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
I want to do good work in the world.
Sara Bareilles
I have done good work in television and wouldn’t want to mess it with a wrong move.
Sudha Chandran
Me and Kyle O’Reilly have wrestled all around the world. We’ve done good work.
Matt Riddle
Don’t worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
Ice Cube
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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
I always want to do good work and enjoy doing it.
Lizz Wright
I want to do more good work. That’s very much my parents’ influence in me.
Yvonne Orji