Good Work Quotes - Page 26

• I suspect that these traits-desire, commitment, and good work habits-are important in all facets of our lives. . .

  LaVell Edwards

  Life, Commitment, Important

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• Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Perfection, Catholic, Firsts

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• Although your father and mother are dead, if you propose to yourself any good work, only reflect how it will make their names illustrious, and your purpose will be fixed.

  Confucius

  Mother, Father, Names

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• I knew I was crazy because I was watching Jesus Christ Superstar and the part where Jesus carries the cross up the mountain, I actually said to myself, "Wow! That must be a really good workout! Yeah, because you're doing arms and cardio!"

  Margaret Cho

  Workout, Jesus, Crazy

  "Margaret Cho: I'm the One That I Want". TV Special, August 4, 2000.

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• There is no prayer or good work so great, so pleasing to God, so useful to us as the Mass.

  Lawrence Giustiniani

  Christian, Prayer, Holy

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• 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

  Dying, Half, Mediocrity

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• And any declaration of faith that does not result in a changed life and good works is a false declaration. It is faith alone that justifies. But faith that justifies can never be alone.

  Greg Laurie

  Faith, Christian, Doe

  Greg Laurie (2013). “New Believer's Guide to Effective Christian Living”, p.20, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Good work is always done in defiance of management.

  Bob Woodward

  Design, Done, Management

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• We are not justified by doing good works, but being justified we then do good.

  William Jenkyn

  Justified, Doing Good

  William Jenkyn, James Sherman (1839). “An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude: Delivered in Christ-Church, London”, p.224

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• Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

  Plato

  Errors, Matter, Poet

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.108, Cosimo, Inc.

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• While there are several challenges, I do believe that over the transition and into the Trump presidency, the media as a whole has done pretty good work, as opposed to a spottier record during the campaign. There has been a lot of shoe-leather reporting going on, and the great story thus far of the Trump White House is the willingness of people who work there to leak to the media.

  Erik Wemple

  Believe, Media, Shoes

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• In the active life all the vices are first of all to be removed by the practice of good works, so that in the contemplative life a man may, with now purified mental gaze, pass on to the contemplation of the Divine Light.

  Isidore of Seville

  Men, Contemplative Life, Light

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• That is how His Majesty [the Lord] rewards our good works---I mean, by predisposing us to perform better ones.

  Teresa of Avila

  Mean, Saint, Rewards

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• There is no inconsistency in saying that God rewards good works, provided we understand that nevertheless men obtain eternal life gratuitously.

  John Calvin

  Men, Rewards, Eternal Life

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• 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

  Drama, Balance, Comedy

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• We have been negotiating a lot of different transactions to save money on contracts that were terrible, including airplane contracts that were out of control and late and terrible. Just absolutely catastrophic in terms of what was happening, and we've done some really good work. We're very proud of that.

  Donald Trump

  Airplane, Different, Done

  Source: www.esquire.com

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