Great Work Ethic Quotes:

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

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

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Way In Life

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Morning, Innovation And Leadership, Striving For Perfection

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

topic: Motivational, Success, Encouragement, Individual Success, Individual Talent

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

- Vince McMahon

topic: Work Ethic, Ethics, Great Work, Great Work Ethic

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

- Helen Keller

topic: Hard Work, Heart, Doors, Easy Tasks, Great Work Ethic

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.

- David Bly

topic: Inspirational, Hard Work, Trying, Inspirational Hard Work, Motivational Work

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.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Working So Hard, Inspirational Hard Work

I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.

- Natasha Richardson

topic: Daughter, Mother, Real, Great Work Ethic

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Inspirational Success Failure, Motivate Employees

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

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Motivational, Sports, Dog, Inspirational Athlete, Inspirational Hockey

I just really want to continue on the same intensity of work ethic, I don't want to slow now. I'm 21-year's old and I feel like this era and a few years to come are my prime years, so I want to utilise them.

- Jason Derulo

topic: Years, Work Ethic, Want, Great Work Ethic

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

- Lisa Leslie

topic: Sports, Volleyball, Winning, Volley, Protestant Work Ethic

Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening.

- Andy Wilkinson

topic: Reading, Writing, Hard Work, Great Work Ethic

The process is really what you have to do day in and day out to be successful, we try to define the standard that we want everybody to sort of work toward, adhere to, and do it on a consistent basis. And the things that I talked about before, being responsible for your own self-determination, having a positive attitude, having great work ethic, having discipline to be able to execute on a consistent basis, whatever it is you're trying to do, those are the things that we try to focus on, and we don't try to focus as much on the outcomes as we do on being all that you can be.

- Nick Saban

topic: Determination, Attitude, Successful, Being Responsible, Great Work Ethic

NFL cheerleading is harder than most people think. They train up to six hours every day with games on Sundays. They gave me a great work ethic.

- Sarah Shahi

topic: Cheerleading, Sunday, Thinking, Great Work Ethic

Money doesn’t know about clocks, schedules or holidays and you shouldn’t either. Money loves people that have great work ethic.

- Grant Cardone

topic: Holiday, People, Work Ethic, Great Work Ethic

What I need to do is have a great positive attitude and a great work ethic. Those two things validate me. Yes, it's important that I have good numbers, and I'm well-respected as a player. But I think it's more important that I'm respected as a man.

- David Robinson

topic: Attitude, Player, Men, Respectability, Great Positive

There are so many people with great work ethics that I've been around. I try and take the best qualities from the people I admire and apply it to my own self.

- Big Sean

source: Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

topic: Self, People, Work Ethic, Great Work Ethic

My childhood was epitomized by my parents who were uneducated but had a doctorate in love. My dad pressed coats and through my mom and dad I learned about love, family and respecting people. They never went to high school but they had within them every element that makes a great American. They had pride and a great work ethic and they knew how to do things the right way.

- Dick Vitale

topic: Mom, Dad, School, Love My Dad, Doctorates

I'm one of those people who does a lot of things. I'm lucky. I get up and I have a lot of energy. I have a great work ethic.

- Jamie Lee Curtis

source: Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 24, 2010.

topic: People, Work Ethic, Energy, Great Work Ethic

I look for people who have raw intelligence and a great work ethic and loyalty, and I can quickly identify people who have the right ingredients. But sometimes it is more difficult to get them to accept the fact that they can take on increasing responsibility. Oftentimes individuals will decide how far [they] go by how much work they're willing to put in and how quick they are to ask for help. Too many people have this deep-seated fear that if they ask for help, they will be thought less of.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Loyalty, Responsibility, People, Great Work Ethic

I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft. It doesn't matter if it's acting or music, you really have to learn how to do it from the bottom up because unless you have a great work ethic... fame is a terrible thing to have.

- Denis Leary

source: "The End of Rescue Me, But Not Denis Leary". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2011.

topic: Thinking, Work Ethic, Acting, Great Work Ethic

All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start in the business, get success without getting a big head and learn your craft.

- Eva LaRue

topic: Children, Work Ethic, Crafts, Soap Operas, Big Heads

I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you're dead.

- Norm MacDonald

topic: People, Work Ethic, Ego, Great Work Ethic

By the time I got to be director of product management at Thomas-Conrad, I was in a better negotiating position, as I had accumulated more accomplishments and gained a reputation for having a great work ethic.

- Maynard Webb

source: Maynard Webb, Carlye Adler (2013). “Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship”, p.39, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Accomplishment, Work Ethic, Directors, Negotiating, Great Work Ethic

All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera!

- Eva LaRue

topic: Children, Work Ethic, Opera, Great Work Ethic

I guess something people wouldn't expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she is so incredibly talented. She has this huge voice and great work ethic, which I really respect in an artist. She is also very humble and gracious and devoted to her skill.

- Zola Jesus

topic: Humble, Artist, Keys, Great Work Ethic

We brought him [Raffi Torres] in because he was an emotional, physical player. He's had nothing but a great attitude and a great work ethic with us all year long. He comes to play, prepares himself real well. We need him to play the way he does. You know, he's a little bit sometimes outside the box, but you've got to let him be who he is.

- Alain Vigneault

topic: Attitude, Real, Hockey, Torres, Outside The Box

I suppose I get a lot of questions about Tiger. But Tiger Woods is a tremendous talent. He plays well. He has a great work ethic. He's probably as talented of a golfer as anyone who's ever played.

- Jack Nicklaus

source: Source: www.nicklaus.com

topic: Play, Work Ethic, Woods, Great Work Ethic