Great Work Quotes

224 Great Work quotes by 179 unique authors

Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun. — Jack White
Whenever GOD determines to do a great work, HE first sets HIS people to pray. — Charles Spurgeon
Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it. — Rainer Maria Rilke
For our personal advancement in virtue and truth one quality is sufficient, namely, love; to advance humanity there must be two, love and intelligence; to… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
All great artists and thinkers are great workers. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I think it's important to do great work. — Kyra Sedgwick
There's definitely a wave of Brits doing great work on American television, and I wouldn't mind being one of them! — Rob James-Collier
I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of… — Helen Mirren
Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job… — Robin Sharma
Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life. — James C. Collins
Doing is very good, but that comes from thinking. Little manifestations of energy through the muscles are called work. But where there is no thought,… — Swami Vivekananda
During my visit to the Philippines, I wanted in a particular way to meet with young people, to listen to you and to talk to… — Pope Francis
I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation. — George Bernard Shaw
Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work. — Charles Spurgeon
Seeing other people do great work is its own form of inspiration and far more powerful than borrowing their ideas. — Kody Chamberlain
Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. — Azar Nafisi
It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels… — Saul Bellow
Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man. — W. Somerset Maugham
I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool,… — Mary Ellen Mark

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