Work & Career: Work Ethic Quotes

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"You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards"

Heston Blumenthal, Chef

Heston Blumenthal

"A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil"

Grover Cleveland, President

Grover Cleveland

"Without hard work and discipline, it is difficult to be a top professional"

Jahangir Khan, Athlete

Jahangir Khan

"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all"

Michelangelo, Artist

Michelangelo

"Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win"

Nadia Comaneci, Athlete

Nadia Comaneci

"The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy"

Peter Lynch, Businessman

"Work begets work"

Brion James, Actor

"Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything"

Xenophon, Soldier

Xenophon

"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more"

Jonas Salk, Scientist

"I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results"

Johannes Sebastian Bach, Composer

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

Thomas Edison

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs"

Henry Ford, Businessman

Henry Ford

"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation"

John Ruskin, Writer

John Ruskin

"Honor lies in honest toil"

Grover Cleveland, President

Grover Cleveland

"If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy"

Charles Manson, Criminal

"One must strike the right balance between speed and quality"

Clare Short, Politician

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"Diligence is the mother of good fortune"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

Benjamin Disraeli

"An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises"

Mae West, Actress

Mae West

"Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such"

Og Mandino, Author

Og Mandino

"You can't cheat the grind. It knows how much you've invested. It won't give you anything you haven't worked for"

Mat Fraser, Athlete

Mat Fraser

"The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise"

Calvin Coolidge, President

Calvin Coolidge

"It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees, and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work"

E. F. Schumacher, Economist

E. F. Schumacher

"The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply"

Denis Waitley, Writer

Denis Waitley

"Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well"

John W. Gardner, Educator

John W. Gardner

"I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile"

Walter Chrysler, Inventor

Walter Chrysler

"Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come"

Serena Williams, Athlete

Serena Williams

"A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail"

John Foster Dulles, Diplomat

John Foster Dulles

"I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard"

Maria Bartiromo, Journalist

"I didn't smoke. I didn't smoke then, and I don't smoke now. We worked every day - that keeps you in pretty good shape. We could go for a long time in one take. You had to be in good shape with Gene Kelly"

Donald O'Connor, Musician

"You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good"

Jerry West, Artist

Jerry West

"The great recipe for success is to work and always work"

Leon Gambetta, Politician

"China should bury head to work diligently for 10 years, and then raise head to face Japan"

Yuan Shikai, Soldier

Yuan Shikai

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