Quotes About Work Ethic And Character

#1. Confidence is a pencil best sharpened with paper.

Kale Burton

#2. If the heart is hardened, the intellect is darkened.

Mark Hart

#3. I'm the queen of the nerds.

Tori Amos

#4. For an actor to be working at all is a kind of miracle, because most actors aren't. So it's just silly for a working actor to say, 'Oh, I don't care if anybody knows I'm gay' especially if you're a leading man. Personally, I wouldn't advise a gay leading man-type actor to come out,

Richard Chamberlain

#5. To all my fans who planned to come to the Future History World tour, the pain of letting you down cuts me way deeper than this injury I've sustained.

Jason Derulo

#6. I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#7. We are faced this year with the choice between the "work ethic" that built this Nation's character and the new "welfare ethic" that could cause that American character to weaken.

Richard M. Nixon

#8. For me, you don't ever want to be defined by the color of your skin. You want to be defined by your work ethic, the person that you are, your character, your personality. That's what I've tried to go out and do.

Robert Griffin III

#9. Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both.

Alison Gopnik

#10. When she ignored me, I had no choice. Was it a suicide mission? Yes. Was I evil for exploiting her only weakness? Probably. She had left me no choice. It was go hard or go home.

G.L. Tomas

#11. It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.

Ben Carson

#12. Anything done without character can only end in catastrophe.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#13. Perhaps also Roger felt that were he to take up the cudgels for an argument he might be worsted in the combat, as in such combats success is won by practised skill rather than by truth.

Anthony Trollope

#14. There is that low level existing before reaching to the peak.

Ezekiel Mosoatsi

#15. There is no true joy in a life lived closed up in the little shell of the self. When you take one step to reach out to people, when you meet with others and share their thoughts and sufferings, infinite compassion and wisdom well up within your heart. Your life is transformed.

Daisaku Ikeda

#16. Your palms break sweat and you sit there, needy, while your work ethic and character are available for comment from strangers you wouldn't share a joint with at a blues festival.

Daniel Woodrell

#17. I'm kind of an insecure artist. I hop from piece to piece. I always think my life depends on every painting. Every painting is my first painting.

Mark Bradford

#18. Contemplation means rest, suspension of activity, withdrawal into the mysterious interior solitude in which the soul is absorbed in the immense and fruitful silence of God and learns something of the secret of His perfections less by seeing than by fruitive love.

Thomas Merton

#19. Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare, And shed their substance on the floating air.

George Crabbe

#20. A man will will never know a woman until he knows her work.

Richard Llewellyn

#21. A strong work ethic is a form of accountability, because it involves keeping a promise to one's employer. It is not the same thing as workaholism.

Bruce Weinstein

#22. I think leadership is more than just being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

Steve Largent

#23. I think the biggest lesson that I take from 'Avatar' on any set that I go to is just work ethic. Working with Jim Cameron, you're used to working very, very long days and you're very meticulous about details. He's very, very picky about little details, little character-isms and things.

Laz Alonso

#24. For God's sake, Helen, I stood in front of my peers and basically said, 'Look, chaps, I can't vote because all I can think about is kissing that brilliant woman who was just in here.' And I don't even bloody know if you still want me to kiss you.

Alexia Adams

#25. The great tragedy of segregation isn't so much that we see less of each other but that in separating from each other we see less of God.

Tullian Tchividjian

#26. I will not promise boys positions, I will not promise any of you football success, I will demand discipline, character, respect, and work ethic throughout the program. If I succeed in getting people to believe then success will follow.

George M. Gilbert