Work & Career: Work Ethic Quotes

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"Everything in the world is purchased by labor"

David Hume, Philosopher

David Hume

"Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't"

Lucille Ball, Comedian

Lucille Ball

"Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Human nature is, above all things, lazy"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible, working as no one else ever works"

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

Alexandre Dumas

"I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part"

Ron White, Comedian

Ron White

"Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

Andy Rooney

"There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God"

John Calvin, Theologian

John Calvin

"You can outwork anybody. Try it, you will find out that you can do it"

Woody Hayes, Coach

Woody Hayes

"I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good"

Woody Hayes, Coach

Woody Hayes

"It does not matter the size of the man, rather the amount of effort the man is willing to put forth"

Woody Hayes, Coach

Woody Hayes

"Perfect preparation prevents piss-poor performance"

Woody Hayes, Coach

Woody Hayes

"I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have. Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect"

Woody Hayes, Coach

Woody Hayes

"I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is: ridiculous, sickening work ethic"

Will Smith, Actor

Will Smith

"I've always considered myself to be just average talent, and what I have is a ridiculous, insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation"

Will Smith, Actor

Will Smith

"Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable"

Samuel Smiles, Author

Samuel Smiles

"We will receive not what we idly wish for, but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service"

Earl Nightingale, Writer

Earl Nightingale

"Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them"

Tom Lehrer, Musician

Tom Lehrer

"If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it"

James A. Garfield, President

James A. Garfield

"A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes - so check your value to the community"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week"

Tyler Perry, Actor

Tyler Perry

"I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?"

Philip Johnson, Architect

Philip Johnson

"And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"There was no one around me who didn't work hard"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top"

Booker T. Washington, Educator

Booker T. Washington

"If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste"

Alexander Smith, Poet

Alexander Smith

"The more one works, the more willing one is to work"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

Lord Chesterfield

"We must reinforce argument with results"

Booker T. Washington, Educator

Booker T. Washington

"It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't"

Martina Navratilova, Athlete

Martina Navratilova

"I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes"

Mel Gibson, Actor

Mel Gibson

"Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

Marian Wright Edelman

"I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant"

Bill Vaughan, Journalist

Bill Vaughan

"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

Joseph Joubert

"Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better"

John Updike, Novelist

John Updike

"I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum"

Tim Vine, Comedian

Tim Vine

"He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed"

Sallust, Historian

Sallust

"Work is the price which is paid for reputation"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

Baltasar Gracian

"The tougher the job, the greater the reward"

George Allen, Sr., Coach

George Allen, Sr.

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