Job Quotes

Small business in America is booming. The job creator in America, small business, is absolutely moving ahead.

~ Pete Domenici

Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.

~ Hugh Jackman

I've certainly had a bad attitude to my job on many occasions. Not since 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'. I've been rather a good boy and really given it everything when I've accepted a part since then, because I've been given much better parts in films.

~ Hugh Grant

You do manage a somewhat religious attitude toward your art. It is a calling rather than a job.

~ Jim Harrison

The enemies of acting are mood and attitude and other general homogenized disruptive entities. Whereas acting is about action - doing - and unless you can figure out a way to craft in an imaginative reality to which you don't submit, you're going to be out of control. You'll flip out. The job is to be surprised.

~ William Hurt

I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.

~ Jessica Brown Findlay

I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes.

~ Elliot Richardson

If I or any other black can deliver at the box office, I'll get a lot of work. Too many young actors, regardless of their color, try to play an attitude on camera and fail to remember their job is to fit into an entertainment.

~ Mario Van Peebles

Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith.

~ Duane Chapman

Editorial pages all say, 'Well, the other guy has a point, too. It remains to be seen how this will come out. We certainly hope it comes out fine; blah, blah.' Cartoonists don't go that way. Our job is to stick out our tongues, to show a big raspberry to whatever pompous jerk happens to be mouthing off.

~ Jeff Macnelly

I'm still like a butterfly going from one job to another job. But it's quite lovely - I hope to keep this freedom, to have fun.

~ Carine Roitfeld

It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.

~ Herman Cain

My father used to have an expression. He'd say, 'Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about respect. It's about your place in your community.'

~ Joe Biden

'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

~ J.k. Rowling

Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be open.

~ Red Adair

You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense.

~ Christopher Meloni

Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job and, as such, I give a republican salute to Nicolas Sarkozy who has led France for 5 years and who deserves all of our respect.

~ Francois Hollande

People who choose not to have kids do so because they respect the job of parenting so much that they know not to take it on if they know it's not something that they're up for, and I don't know what to be a bigger tribute to parenting than that.

~ Meghan Daum

The police officer's job is to respect the citizens that they are in control of.

~ Benjamin Watson

When I was working at the Sprint store, I got laid off. I was bummed out, but I stayed positive. I used the money I had earned while working there to make my first album. Without that job, maybe 'Corazon Sin Cara' would never had been made. It's a very inspirational story.

~ Prince Royce

We're in a situation where talented, motivated school leavers and graduates can send off a hundred CVs and not get a reply, and where a trip to the Job Centre is depressing rather than inspirational. And you know what, that just feels wrong.

~ Jameela Jamil

It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job.

~ Aretha Franklin

We all obviously need others to look up to, and be inspirational to us. Ford did a great job as far as putting the presidency back where it belonged, getting the trust back after Nixon. And President Reagan has been one of the most influential presidents.

~ Steve Garvey

Job training empowers people to realize their dreams and improve their lives.

~ Sylvia Mathews Burwell

I used to work at a movie theater and sold hams at Honey Baked Ham during the holidays. I sold a ton of hams, and they offered me a regular job there, which I turned down. I feel like anything you do, just do it 100% because then that work ethic will bleed through when it's time to work on your dreams.

~ Tika Sumpter

It's not my job to dream your dreams. It's my job to make your dreams become a reality.

~ Blanche Lincoln

Ours is the job of interpreting the Constitution. And that document isn't some inkblot on which litigants may project their hopes and dreams.

~ Neil Gorsuch

You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.

~ Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney will stop the attacks on job creators, encourage entrepreneurs to chase their dreams, and bring good jobs and a better future to all Americans.

~ Marco Rubio

I have got the job of my dreams.

~ Cory Booker

Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.

~ Nawazuddin Siddiqui

For an entrepreneur with 'improbable' and 'impossible' dreams, the alleged stability that comes from getting 'a real job' is nothing but a sign of slavery.

~ Fabrizio Moreira

We all have those dreams we've never let go of. But believe it or not, sometimes a job that we're not that keen on can help us achieve those dreams or goals.

~ John Rampton

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

~ Antonio Tabucchi

You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they've got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything you'll ever see on TV.

~ Harvey Pekar

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

~ Harry S Truman

Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.

~ Barry Eisler

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

~ Carrie Brownstein

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

~ Herbert Hoover

First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity.

~ Thomas E. Mann