Work Ethic Quotes

• How long should you try? Until.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspiring, Perseverance, Determination

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• I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Girl

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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  I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Feb 20, 2011

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• The harder I work, the luckier I get.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Inspirational, Funny, Positive

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• Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.154, A&C Black

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• The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

  Steve Jobs

  Work, Believe, Loving What You Do

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.

  Lisa Leslie

  Sports, Volleyball, Winning

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• I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get.

  John Engler

  Positive, Work, Inspirational Life

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• Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jobs, Greatness, Heaven

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• The harder I work, the luckier I become.

  Terry Pratchett

  Positive, Work, Inspirational Life

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• I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Excerpts from an Oral History Interview with Daniel Morrow: "Advice for Future Entrepreneurs", americanhistory.si.edu. April 20, 1995.

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• If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

  Will Smith

  Sleep, Bad Ass, Guy

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• The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Motivational, Sports, Dog

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• Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Risk, Ethics

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.51, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic, and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from the earliest days of life right through to the present time.

  George J. Mitchell

  Sister, Strong, Brother

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• I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic.

  Vince McMahon

  Ethics, Great Work, Great Work Ethic

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• Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Success, Congratulations

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• I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear. So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing? You know what you're capable of doing and what you're not.

  Michael Jordan

  Skills, Ethics, Never Fear

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• Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.

  Donny Osmond

  Father, Taught Us, Ethics

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• Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.

  Harsha Bhogle

  Consistency, Ethics, Profession

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