Work Ethic Quotes

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

~ Max Beerbohm

[On writing:] There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing t

~ David Halberstam

Well, Jack, we have taken the Macedonian, and your share of the prize, if we get her in safely, may be two hundred dollars; what will you do with it?” Stephen Decatur, commanding the frigate United States, North Atlantic, near the Azores Islands, 1812.“One hundred will go to my mother, sir, and the other I shall spend on schooling.” Jack Creamer, aged ten.

~ Irvin Anthony

Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men, I say, but better to call them human spiders that go crawling in between and under the tables with rags in their hands, crushed humans in crushed uniforms, sluggish, unshaven, in their thirties or forties or fifties but still boys. But that is your fate if you do your job well - with honesty, dedication, and sincerity, the way Gandhi would have done it, no doubt.

~ Aravind Adiga

These days no one challenges us,' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy.

~ Tahir Shah

You can find fulfillment in your work, work with all your heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Elite runners are genetically gifted, sure, but without intense training, those gifts are wasted. Their training creates a strong work ethic that leaves humility in its wake. There are no short cuts in marathoning, so anyone who is a marathoner has worked hard.

~ Jeff Horowitz

The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.

~ William Shakespeare

Whether it be training, dieting, working out, or work ethic, for every great excuse Not to do something, there are 100 better reasons for you to do it.

~ Mark W. Boyer

The effort you put forth in whatever you do is directly proportional to the results you produce.

~ Mark W. Boyer