Top 100 Do Your Work Quotes
#1. Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out
from behind the clouds!
Shine
Gautama Buddha
#2. Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. And above all, you should not think of writing as a way of earning your living. If you do, your work will smell of your poverty. It will be colored by your weakness and be as thin as your hunger. There are other trades which you can take up: make boots, not books.
Marquis De Sade
#4. Dear God, I don't ask that my life be perfect but that you allow the myriad of emotions in my life to end each day with calmness. May I sleep peacefully to do your work again by morning light. I ask for these things in Jesus's name, amen.
Ron Baratono
#5. Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
Elbert Hubbard
#6. You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.
Clyde Tombaugh
#7. Do your work with honesty and integrity, and don't compromise God's moral standards. It may be difficult, but it's far better to do right than to do wrong. God is with you, and He will not abandon you.
Billy Graham
#8. I know a fat girl, she wears an orange skirt. You give her twenty dollars and you can do your work.
LL Cool J
#9. You don't even have to leave your house: you do your work from your house; you can order anything you want from your house; you don't have to leave your chair. Everything's been designed so that you never leave your computer chair.
Deryck Whibley
#10. So now do not worry, take what you have, and do your work and you will have a long life and a very merry one.
Ernest Hemingway,
#11. You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it.
Robert Frank
#12. One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.
Tryon Edwards
#13. Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of a soldier in the public service. Be loyal to the Commonwealth and to yourselves and be brief; above all be brief.
Calvin Coolidge
#15. You can't please everyone, and you have to trust your instincts, and you have to do your work and throw yourself in there and trust your instincts, and just trust that you're doing a good job that I can be proud of as well.
Matt Ryan
#16. We 've wholly forgotten how to die. But be sure you do die nevertheless. Do your work, and finish it. If you know how to begin, you will know when to end.
Henry David Thoreau
#17. You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.
Meryl Streep
#18. You can't do your work worrying about what people will think of it - you kind of just have to do your work.
Scott Wolf
#19. You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you'd like to have it done. And I've always been able to surround myself with really good people.
Kenny Rogers
#20. When you totally commit yourself to a project and do your work quietly and well, unknown friends will find you and angels will surround you.
Michael Hogan
#21. Ged stood sick and haggard. He said at last, "Better I had died." "Who are you to judge that, you for whom Nemmerle gave his life? - You are safe here. You will live here, and go on with your training. They tell me you were clever. Go on and do your work. Do it well. It is all you can do.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#22. Heavenly Father, forgive me my sins. Forgive me my weakness and fear. Help me to fight my cowardice. Strengthen my ability to withstand the sight of suffering, so that I might do Your work in relieving those who endure it. -Toti
Hannah Kent
#24. Prayer without action is no prayer at all. You have to do your work as if everything depends on you. Then leave the rest to God." Mother Teresa
Stephen J. Young
#25. It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at.
Denzel Washington
#26. Don't worry about things. Don't push. Just do your work and you'll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.
Ray Bradbury
#27. You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.
Rudyard Kipling
#28. The Boov frowned. 'Everybodies always is wanting to make a clone for to doing their work. If you are not wanting to do your work, why would a clone of you want to do your work?
Adam Rex
#29. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.
Lao-Tzu
#30. So go on, get angry. But keep your mouth shut and go do your work.
Austin Kleon
#31. A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
Seth Godin
#32. Whether you do your work with notes or without them, do it courageously, earnestly, with devotion; with a glad sense of the greatness of it, and a full consecration of every force and faculty to it.
Richard Salter Storrs
#33. The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
Candace Bushnell
#35. My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories about a character and then you throw it away. So then on set, if it doesn't come, then you didn't do your work.
Chris Zylka
#36. I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.
Edward Norton
#39. As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.
Robert Genn
#41. Find your cause, and then do your work with pride and love - love is such an incredible force for good. It's the most powerful thing in the world.
Robin S. Sharma
#42. In your discipline, if doubt comes let it come. Do your work - let doubt carry on with its work and see which gives up first!
B.K.S. Iyengar
#43. Teaching people doesn't subtract value from what you do, it actually adds to it. When you teach someone how to do your work, you are, in effect, generating more interest in your work. People feel closer to your work because you're letting them in on what you know.
Austin Kleon
#44. Your work is not your job. Your job is what they pay you to do; your work is what you were born to do.
Myles Munroe
#45. The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don't you know anything about basic economics?
Brandon Sanderson
#46. I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life.
John Milius
#47. Pursuing fun is exhausting. Having fun is just fun. Much more relaxing just to do your work, don't you think? I mean if you enjoy it.
Peter Heller
#48. I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.
Anna Sewell
#49. A film set is really delicate and people treat you very very well if you're an actor because they want you to be as comfortable as possible for you to do your work, but it really is just one in a team of many and usually 150 people.
Amanda Seyfried
#50. The Revenge and the Vengeance makes you to go forward and forward to do your work... This which was taken, you should take it from them.
Deyth Banger
#51. The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.
Randy Wayne White
#52. If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work, that's all you can control. You can't control any of what's out there, outside yourself.
David Lynch
#53. That was the definition of management - getting others to do your work for you. And we were the others.
John Elder Robison
#54. That's the thing. If you're prepared to get shit on and do your work anyway, sometimes you get lucky.
Brent Weeks
#55. There is always a choice about the way you do your work even if there is not a choice about the work itself.
Stephen C. Lundin
#56. Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.
Leo Szilard
#57. When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't.
Richard Jenkins
#58. There are a lot of people who wait tables. And especially because you can do it at night and you can do your work in the day, she and I had a very similar experience.
Piper Perabo
#60. Consider the holiness of your hands. They are how you do your work on this earth; they are a microcosm of the hands of the Goddess, and can change the world as easily as hers can.
Dianne Sylvan
#61. School is just like having a job. You have to show up, you have to do your work, and you have to be around tons of idiots or mean people. Now that I think about it, it's worse than having a job. At least there you get paid.
Elizabeth Scott
#62. I like relaxed sets. I like to feel that I can make a mistake without feeling like I'm costing somebody money. I like a sense of freedom. I like it when people are open and are willing to let you do your work.
Richard Jenkins
#64. If you do your work, eventually there will be a spark. A fire. A blaze.
Daniel Gillies
#65. It's simply not enough to just show up and do your work. Superior performance is not, never has been, nor will it ever be, the by-product of ordinary efforts.
Gary Ryan
#66. The way I approach stardom and the show, I'm like a politician. I'm an elected late-night official to do your work.
Arsenio Hall
#67. You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.
Lance Henriksen
#68. When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.
Thomas Merton
#69. My parents taught me as a kid: do your work. Do it well. Try as hard as you can, whatever it is. It will one day, for the long [run], it will make some sort of change somewhere.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#70. The payoff of living in the past or the future is you never have to do your work in the present.
Steven Pressfield
#71. My dear friend, the entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don't you know anything about basic economics? - Breeze
Brandon Sanderson
#72. I don't believe too much in originality ... you learn art from other art and then looking into somebody's face or landscape is the point of departure to do your work of art.
Paterson Ewen
#73. Trust yourself to be able to confront and work through your emotions. If you believe you can't do it, you won't do it and you'll become stuck. If you believe you can do it, you will.
Sam Owen
#74. I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
Eddie Marsan
#75. Do now what you must,
work with your hands,
and work with your mind,
and work with all of your heart.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#76. (On her work in Keep Your Powder Dry) I didn't want to do it, but they said if I did it they would give me Undercurrent with Robert Taylor. Then they gave Undercurrent to Katharine Hepburn, so I left MGM.
Laraine Day
#77. Ultimately you're trying to reach across and find some other person, some other human warmth. But it is, especially in written poetry, it is inscribed in a text and the text can't do that work by itself and you as a poet can only do your best.
Edward Hirsch
#78. In the Senate, where 60 votes are required to do anything important, you have to work with your colleagues on both sides of the aisle.
Lamar Alexander
#79. Do a good job. You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work then try to trump it.
Walt Disney
#80. One way to get very humble is to dedicate the work you're going to do to your community.
Sandra Cisneros
#81. The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.
Hillary Clinton
#82. You can write and visualize goals all you want, but if you do not take action, your goals will never become a reality. To obtain a goal you have never before achieved will require tasks you have never before done.
Cameron C. Taylor
#83. Do you feel bored and stuck in a rut? Is work drudgery? If so, you are spending far too much time bemoaning your fate and how the universe is not cooperating with your desires. Be present with and in your current situation.
Srikumar Rao
#84. When things in your life do not make sense, keep on praying. Ask God what He wants you to do, and let Him heal you on the inside. He understands that you and I are not perfect. We are works in progress, but we should let Him work within us.
Nick Vujicic
#85. Take your everyday, ordinary life- your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life-and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for Him." (The Message)
Cody Bobay
#87. Believe in yourself.. in all you can do.. and for you, the deals will start to work in your favor. You need to be open to such deals, and they will come, I assure you.
Ivana Trump
#88. If you do not have the innate ability to seek out someone's work on your own, and you have to wait for Hollywood to do it for you, then you are some sort of hillside grazer of culture; you are a sheep, a cow, what is biologically classified as a ruminant ... Fuck you.
Rich Hall
#89. And the reason you hate writing so much is because you start analyzing your work before you're done pouring it onto the page. Your Left-brain won't let your Right-brain do it's job ... Your Right-brain gets the words on the page. The Left-brain makes them sing.
Jeff Bollow
#90. The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
Andrew Carnegie
#92. If you'll all just follow me over to our top sector here, I'll start your guided tour."
Ellis got up, then followed Riley and Heather, who was dragging her feet, as they fell in behind Deb. "Are there going to be snacks?" he
asked. "I do my best work with snacks.
Sarah Dessen
#93. To be an artist means to invite an occupation into your life that requires commitment and hard work, but the rewards and satisfaction you'll get make the work seem like play. But you have to do it every day.
Veronica Lawlor
#94. People do not follow uncommitted leaders. Commitment can be displayed in a full range of matters to include the work hours you choose to maintain, how you work to improve your abilities, or what you do for your fellow workers at personal sacrifice.
Stephen R. Gregg
#95. Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun ... and you'll have no regrets.
Byrd Baggett
#96. If you are working with people with whom you do NOT do your best work, you are out of integrity.
Michael Port
#97. He had a simple maxim for all competitive or adversarial situations: work out what the other party least wants you to do, and then do it. Relieving your feelings was fun, but the best course of action was to make things as difficult as possible for the person trying to make things difficult for you.
John Lanchester
#98. At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted.
Jon Lovitz
#99. Somethings you know right away to be final- when you lose your last baby tooth ... Other times, you have to work out the milestone via subtraction, a math you do to assign significance, like when I figured out that I'd just blown through my last-ever wednesday with Mom on the day after she died.
Karen Russell
#100. Be the kind of person others admire, can count on, trust, and enjoy spending time with. After you have developed that reputation, people will start to ask you what you do and you will be amazed at how many people will want to work with you. You will attract others based on your character.
Larry Winget
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