Roll Up Sleeves Quotes

#1. You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.

Patricia Schroeder

#2. I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.

Paula Deen

#3. Lifting where we stand is a principle of power. Most of the priesthood bearers I know understand and live by this principle. They are eager to roll up their sleeves and go to work, whatever that work might be.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#4. We must insist on assimilation - immigration without assimilation is an invasion. We need to tell folks who want to come here, they need to come here legally. They need to learn English, adopt our values, roll up their sleeves and get to work.

Bobby Jindal

#5. I've found that when you roll up your sleeves and join people in their daily work, they tend to open up quite a bit and let you know what they really think about the issues facing our country and what kind of job they think the government is doing.

Bob Beauprez

#6. It comes down to this. Some one must wash the dishes. Now, would you expect man, man made in the image of God, to roll up his sleeves and wash the dishes? Why, it would be blasphemy. I know that I am but a rib and so I wash the dishes.

Marie Jenney Howe

#7. Everyone needs to have a denim shirt in your wardrobe. They work in the evening with a blazer or over your shoulder. They're great to pair with a pair of shorts - roll up the sleeves, unbutton it to show a peekaboo of your tank top.

Brad Goreski

#8. You get to the point in life where you realize you have to roll up your sleeves, deal with the consequences of what happens, and carry your own weight.

Ernie Isley

#9. I wake up every morning and thank God I live in a country where all of this is possible. Where you have the Yankee ingenuity to roll up your sleeves, get a band of people who believe in something and go for it and make it happen. It doesn't happen anywhere else.

Brian Binnie

#10. When I produce a record, I roll up my sleeves; I'm not one of those passive guys. I really get in there and make sure every note is measured. I tell the bass player, 'You have to play it like this,' or I tell the drummer, 'It's got to be like this.'

David Foster

#11. Here's my philosophy in life: If there's a fire, you put it out. If there's a flood, you fill sandbags and you build a dike. You roll up your sleeves and you get to work.

James Cameron

#12. If you treat staff as your equal, they'll roll their sleeves up to get the job done.

John Ilhan

#13. We weren't treated as prima-donnas. We had to roll up our sleeves and graft with the groundsman. Kids don't have to do anymore. That makes you appreciate things when it turns in your favour and you become a successful professional.

Colin Cooper

#14. Christians must go beyond criticizing the degradation of American culture, roll up their sleeves, and get to work on positive solutions. The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.

Nancy Pearcey

#15. Facing problems is like looking at a sink piled up with dirty dishes. More you think more they stink. It takes only to roll up the sleeves and start washing them, one by one. In just ten minutes they are done.

Vinko Vrbanic

#16. I don't believe there's any problem in this country, no matter how tough it is, that Americans, when they roll up their sleeves, can't completely ignore.

George Carlin

#17. If we do not roll up our sleeves to the task of the Gospel in our days, then we will amount to virtually nothing for God.

Alistair Begg

#18. Time will tell ... whether folks want to point and stare at the black woman filmmaker who made a certain kind of film, and pat her on the back, or if they want to actually roll up the sleeves and do a little bit of work so that there can be more of me coming through.

Ava DuVernay

#19. I had a lot of times with Wales as well when we were getting beat - and beaten well - and you learn to deal with it. You learn that next time it happens, you roll your sleeves up and give everything for the team.

Gary Speed

#20. We have a beautiful program which is audacious and I really want us all to roll up our sleeves and to work at making it a success.

Pauline Marois

#21. You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a sculptor - command of craft always precedes art: apprentice, journeyman, master.

Philip Gerard

#22. Now I'm way into suits that I can put on whether I took a shower or not, and wear barefoot and paint my toes black or whatever color the suit is. It's very cool to wear suits like that. Roll up the sleeves and just say yee-haw.

Steven Tyler

#23. I'm not into the culture of complaint. I roll up my sleeves and somehow I get it together.

Werner Herzog

#24. There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't one of those.

Joseph O'Neill

#25. It is time for every one of us to roll up our sleeves and put ourselves at the top of our commitment list.

Marian Wright Edelman

#26. I believe I am a work horse. I believe that that is what our country needs. We need a president who will roll up our sleeves collectively as a nation and tackle the problems that we confront.

Hillary Clinton

#27. The future is now. Roll up your sleeves and let your passion flow. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

Bruce Springsteen

#28. Our fate and destiny is in our hands. Blaming others for our failures is wrong because we can independently choose our circumstances. Wake up, smell the coffee and roll up your sleeves.

Boniface Kamau Zablon

#29. There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list.

Marian Wright Edelman

#30. Roll-up those sleeves and work until you see the fruit of your labour. It takes Passion, Resolve and a Productive Work Ethic, meeting with Opportunity, for you to succeed.

Archibald Marwizi

#31. The only damn thing I ever learned in all my years in art school was a piece is never done, it is just finished. You have to trust your inner voice, your instincts, when they tell you pencils down. And you roll up your sleeves and you start over again.

Brian Michael Bendis

#32. To get the respect of people, I think you've got to roll up your sleeves and lead with your people. The absolute key is treating your people well. Looking for the best in your people. Lots and lots of praise, no criticism.

Richard Branson

#33. She would roll up her sleeves and dispense with sentimentality, and do whatever blood-soaked, bad-smelling thing had to be done. She would become adept with axes.

Margaret Atwood

#34. If you want success, roll your sleeves up and fight for it!

Arlene Brown

#35. You can't write about stuff you don't know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.

Dierks Bentley

#36. Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole world will respect our sex.

Carrie Chapman Catt

#37. Our Father in Heaven does not wish us to cower. He does not want us to wallow in our misery. He expects us to square our shoulders, roll up our sleeves, and overcome our challenges.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#38. An idea is just another idea if you don't roll up your sleeves and make it happen. A dream is just another dream if you don't bring it to life. You must always Stay The Course ... no matter what happens in your life, to live the life you want!

Timothy Pina

#39. I want my movies to be commercial, fun thrill rides but I also want them to have substance to them. The fun part is knowing how to roll up your sleeves and get it done.

Ric Roman Waugh

#40. What any manager will try to bring to a company first and foremost is an energy and commitment to the business. To try and really roll your sleeves up.

James Murdoch

#41. To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

Jean Anouilh

#42. How often do the poor daydream of a better life? Plenty, no doubt, and where does it get them? It is the poor who begin with a daydream and realize at some point that they have to get up, roll their sleeves, and start doing something about those day dreams who succeed. And there are many who have.

Stephen Richards

#43. Always roll up the sleeves on your shirt. It gives the impression that you're working, even if you're not.

Ashton Kutcher

#44. Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.

Annie Dillard

#45. I've actually cut my personal pay individually; we didn't vote on that, but I've done that individually. It's important that folks know that we're going to roll up our sleeves and work on things, and members of Congress are going to sacrifice our own budgets first.

Steve Stivers

#46. I've reached an age at which I'd rather pay more for something that "just works" than roll up my sleeves, reach for a spanner, and make it work. Time is money, and the older we get the less of it we've got left.

Charles Stross

#47. We cannot look backwards. What we have to do is raise our heads, look forward, roll up our sleeves and work.

Roberto Azevedo