Work Ethic Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• My mind has an obsessive, neurotic quality, but I also have a very hard work ethic. I know that a lot of people think, oh, you have a wild imagination. I don't, really. If ten people are sitting around and someone says, "Hey complete this sentence in a funny way," I'm never ahead of the pack.

  George Saunders

  Hard Work, Thinking, Wild Imagination

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that it's the passion for the game that we have and just the work ethic. We try to work as hard as we can every game. Trusting God and help from our parents have gotten us to where we are now.

  Malcolm Subban

  Passion, Thinking, Games

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Inspiration and work ethic - they ride right next to each other.

  Jack White

  Inspiration, Next, Ethics

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• Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Success, Congratulations

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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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• The harder I work, the luckier I become.

  Terry Pratchett

  Positive, Work, Inspirational Life

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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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• Without labor nothing prospers.

  Sophocles

  Motivational, Work, Labor

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

  John Engler

  Positive, Work, Inspirational Life

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• Work ethics eliminates fear.

  Michael Jordan

  Ethics

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• Work ethic, confidence, a laser focus and commitment to accomplish a goal that most people can never imagine.

  Daniel Cormier

  Commitment, Mma, People

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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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• I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Real, Ethics, Hours

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, music.avclub.com. June 7, 2007.

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• Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and imperialism.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Fashion, Hero, Technology

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• I have no artistic sensibilities. I wish I did. It is probably really cool. I have work habits and work ethic. For me, all the things I do are jobs.

  Henry Rollins

  Jobs, Wish, Ethics

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• I'm not a guy who did drugs or drank alcohol. I had a good work ethic and gave back to the community.

  Walt Frazier

  Alcohol, Community, Guy

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Face your problems head on. Do what you have to do to take care of it. Develop a good work ethic.

  George Chuvalo

  Care, Faces, Ethics

  Source: fightnetwork.com

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• I'm pretty conservative when it comes to money. My parents were very working class and constantly working. There was always a very strong work ethic and that's put a more conservative, "save for a rainy day" mentality into me.

  Lemar

  Strong, Rainy Day, Class

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I don't spend much on clothes. I buy old books. I tell myself I ought to save - it's the classic Northern work ethic. I like good holidays, though. I'm a big fan of cruises. I love unpacking once and having the scenery change every day.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Book, Holiday, Clothes

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I write both at home and at coffee shops, and I have a terrible work ethic - I have a tendency to write most of my books right before the deadline. I'm trying to work on that, but so far, I'm not getting any more organized.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Coffee, Book, Home

  "Romance Unlaced: Interview with Elizabeth Hoyt". Interview With Madeline Hunter, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. September 10, 2014.

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• The way to stop feeling guilty is to read stuff - I'm not saying my book, but works by Bertrand Russell or Oscar Wilde, people who weren't losers but who didn't believe in the work ethic, and argued this thing about guilt or wrote philosophy about idleness.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Philosophy, Believe, Book

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• I think just what my parents instilled in me was hard work and being able to always go out there and focus and be 100%. I took that work ethic into the NFL and everyday I always gave 100% and never wanted anything to be handed to me. I wanted to earn it. And every time I stepped on that football field during practice I wanted to leave that football field with learning something about what the practice was about for me that day...

  Jerry Rice

  Football, Hard Work, Thinking

  "The Secrets To Jerry Rice’s Hall Of Fame Football Career Can Be Found In Crawford, Mississippi". Interview with Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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• Have a huge work ethic, be ambitious, aggressive, tough.

  Ron Conway

  Ambitious, Tough, Ethics

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