Top 100 Strong Work Quotes
#1. A can-do attitude, a positive personality, and a strong work ethic are still the primary ingredients for success at Nordstrom.
Robert Spector
#2. From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic, and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from the earliest days of life right through to the present time.
George J. Mitchell
#3. Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.
Jim DeMint
#4. My parents both worked - my mom was an accountant, and my dad is a builder - and that taught me about having a really strong work ethic, and I respected them a lot for that.
Miranda Kerr
#5. 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
#6. I was taught a very strong work ethic that included punctuality, which I've always felt is a sign of respect for others.
Nicole Kidman
#7. The value of having a vision backed by a strong work ethic is the simple formula for success
Jerry Gladstone
#8. Do a strong work meditation all day. You won't be as exhausted as everyone else because you have been gaining a kind of internal power from your work.
Frederick Lenz
#9. The first qualification for success in my view is a strong work ethic.
Henry Ford II
#10. The best way to learn is by doing. The only way to build a strong work ethic is getting your hands dirty.
Alex Spanos
#12. I believe Americans have a strong work ethic.
Tim Scott
#13. The best thing about where comedy is now is if you have a little bit of talent and a strong work ethic, and strong social skills, you can make a name for yourself and you can make money.
Donnell Rawlings
#14. I try to be very much in control when it comes to work. I have a strong work ethic.
Alison Brie
#15. A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.
Michael Heizer
#16. Live by the creed that a strong work ethic, playing by the rules, and doing things the right way will bring about opportunities for success and, ultimately, happiness.
Nick Saban
#17. We can see beyond the present shadows of war in the Middle East to a new world order where the strong work together to deter and stop aggression. This was precisely Franklin Roosevelt's and Winston Churchill's vision for peace for the post-war period.
Dick Gephardt
#18. We didn't have a lot when I was growing up, and it's the best thing that happened to me because I appreciate everything. I developed a strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#19. I think my favorite role was playing Sarah Baker in 'Cheaper by the Dozen 1.' It was my first movie, and I worked with amazing professionals who had such strong work ethics that I immediately learned how to work in this industry.
Alyson Stoner
#20. My father was a big influence - it was very important to him that we traveled, and he gave me my strong work ethic.
Marcus Samuelsson
#21. I'm pretty conservative when it comes to money. My parents were very working class and constantly working. There was always a very strong work ethic and that's put a more conservative, "save for a rainy day" mentality into me.
Lemar
#22. My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately.
Matthew Gray Gubler
#23. My family are my priority but I've always had a strong work ethic and I like to be busy.
Amanda Holden
#24. I have a very strong work ethic, and I'm very grateful for that. But I think there was a moment when I realized, "Oh, I can play a little as well."
Carla Gugino
#25. 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
#26. I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.
Diane Lane
#27. Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.
Ursula Burns
#28. My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'
Sally Hawkins
#29. I'm kind of the long-hauler type of person. I also have a strong work ethic and gratitude for people that I work with.
Patricia Arquette
#30. My dad is good at sticking with stuff and he has a strong work ethic, which is imbued in me. Growing up, he would constantly ask what I was doing and was I achieving anything.
Pete Cashmore
#31. Wisdom says we should try to make a relationship work not because we have strong feelings but because it's a good match.
Gary L. Thomas
#32. Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.
Mikhail Botvinnik
#33. It's part of the fun of it to work with strong personalities.
Kelly Lynch
#34. Your goal should be to take your body and make it as healthy, strong, flexible and well-proportioned as you can.
Jane Fonda
#35. Roland gave her a courtier's smile. "And what sort of work do you do for my uncle?
"
Dorian shifted on his feet and Chaol went very still, but Celaena returned Roland's smile and said, "I bury the king's opponents where nobody will ever find them.
Sarah J. Maas
#36. Prior to going to college, I had a pretty strong accent, and that was one of the things I had to work on a lot. I went to North Carolina School of the Arts; my speech teacher ... that was one of the things we really had to work on over the years, and thankfully I think it finally worked.
Chris Parnell
#37. The Holy Spirit is the source of spiritual unity! He is the Fount of all true joy! We as missionaries need the fullness of this joy. Without it our work will be a burden to us, and we shall toil on with the hearts of slaves; and the hearts of slaves are never strong.
Griffith John
#38. You don't last long in this line of work if you feel more than others. Only the strong and the armored survive. You need an extra layer of skin, of Teflon, of Kevlar.
Karina Halle
#39. It's necessary for you to work out a way of living that's very strong and very tight and very powerful, otherwise you will not be able to deal with the unknown.
Frederick Lenz
#40. I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.
Molly Parker
#41. Kate Winslet is incredible. She's so lovely and so flexible, and she's got three kids, and she's flying internationally to work. It's amazing to see strong women doing what they want to do and doing it well.
Sarah Snook
#42. Self esteem is not the same as being self centered, self absorbed or selfish. Self esteem is also not complacency or overconfidence, both of which and set us up for failure. Self esteem is a strong motivator to work hard. Self esteem is related to mental health and happiness.
Glenn R. Schiraldi
#43. Life's a daily work in progress. Always move forward reaching new goals. Hit a road block? Keep calm & stay strong.
Timothy Pina
#44. They were strong singers, with swift minds and open good humor--arrogant enough to think they could stand on a stage and dogged enough to have done the work to get there.
Vivien Shotwell
#45. We either make ourselves miserable," said the Brazilian sage Carlos Castaneda, "or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
Steve Chandler
#46. As an organization, Esri is strong, and we're continuing to grow. We're dedicated to this. And we're excited to see what you can accomplish and to watch your work evolve.
Jack Dangermond
#47. The best innovation comes from inclusive work environments that foster diverse ideas, nurture people with diverse talent and backgrounds, and create strong relationships with diverse communities.
Mark Parker
#48. It is necessary to have a strong focus. Work will give you that focus.
Frederick Lenz
#49. I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition in bacterial molecular genetics and an excellent reputation in biology.
Paul Nurse
#50. It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.
Paul Gauguin
#51. The essence of my work, and of me, is the softer side of a strong woman, and that goes into a number of different roles.
Dee Wallace
#52. You can't ever work too much because there's no such thing as being in too good condition. You can't ever lift too many weights because you can't ever get too strong. You can't ever wrestle too much because you can always do better.
Dan Gable
#53. Being strong was hard work, and I was ready to let someone else be strong for a little bit. Not forever, but for a little while.
J.C. Isabella
#54. I just don't have a tremendously strong belief that relationships can work. I'm really quite convinced that they don't. And if they do, it's really quite terribly brief and sporadic.
Morrissey
#55. Sometimes we make assumptions about influence when similarities between two writers' work are so strong, but they're still just assumptions. Some things are sort of zeitgeist-y. There's a collective consciousness and we're all drawing from it.
Ron Currie Jr.
#56. The best defense against terrorism is a strong offensive against terrorists. That work continues.
George W. Bush
#57. A strong foundation at home sets you up for a strong foundation at work.
Robin Sharma
#58. But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.
Claudia Cardinale
#59. If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always at work, looking for and devising means to get to the goal.
Frederick Philip Grove
#60. I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE.
Sarah Dessen
#61. I rise at 6. Strong coffee helps me face the paper edition of 'The New York Times.' It daily challenges my own capacity for faking anything deranged enough to sound true. I work till 2 P.M. unless I am in the throes of finishing something. I rewrite to be reread.
Allan Gurganus
#62. My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way.
Javier Bardem
#63. Indebted countries can only grow out of their debt troubles through strong economic growth; austerity measures alone cannot work. It is imperative to engage in deep structural reform to spur growth.
Lou Jiwei
#64. The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information, the better informed the electorate is and the better the government runs.
Scott Pelley
#65. I feel like I need just to keep trying to make the work for the right reasons. I think part of that is working with really good people, and just trying to make strong truthful work. And not being diverted from that.
Cate Shortland
#66. When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee - working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.
Madeleine Albright
#67. Most of the people I know who are having trouble finding their life work are somewhat passive in style. They wait for something good to happen to them rather than make strong positive moves.
Thomas Moore
#68. North Carolina is strong because our people are strong. They define our state - by their hard work, commitment to their families and neighbors, their willingness to sacrifice so that their children can have a chance to forge their own path.
Kay Hagan
#69. I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.
Sarah Gadon
#70. I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.
Ryan Gosling
#71. Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.
Frances O'Grady
#72. You have only one life, don't waste your life, fulfilling others dream.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#73. Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
Annie Leibovitz
#74. The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it
Morrie Schwartz.
#75. Researchers were surprised to find that people with strong self-control spent less time resisting desires than other people did ... people with good self-control mainly use it not for rescue in emergencies but rather to develop effective habits and routines in school and at work.
Roy Baumeister
#76. I remembered breathing through the pain in my chest, wishing I could say that love would conquer all, that our love was too strong to break. But life didn't work that way, and believing in that particular fairy tale wasn't something I could ever be so innocent as to pin my hopes and dreams on.
Staci Hart
#77. Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less.
H.L. Mencken
#78. What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
Marge Piercy
#80. I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.
Meryl Streep
#81. My mother taught me to always be strong and always work hard. She's been working hard her whole life for me and my brother. I'm a lot like her in that I work hard for what I want. She taught me that.
Kevin Durant
#82. Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men.
Herbert Baxter Adams
#83. I like to think that I represent myself as a strong woman, so to work with other strong women I find very inspiring.
Annabelle Wallis
#84. For me, a woman who is absorbed in her work, who does not care about gaining one's favour, strong yet subtle at the same time, is essentially more seductive. The more she hides and abandons her femininity, the more it emerges from the very heart of her existence.
Yohji Yamamoto
#85. Now that economic realism has finally arrived in India, the future lies in becoming a strong economic power. Dominance in the world will come only from how well a nation can cope with economic realism and towards that India must work, must find its own place under the sun.
Mukesh Ambani
#86. My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.
John H. Johnson
#87. If you have a strong sense of who you are and what you're doing, then it's actually easier to work with other people, because you don't have to worry about them or yourself. You're just worrying about getting the best product, and all that other stuff is out of the way.
Eliza Coupe
#88. Nobody sounds like that! Mom, Aunt Nan, it won't work. No way is he ever, ever, ever going to blend in. And his ... you know ... his shoulders are all wide and he's all tan and looks Superman strong ... and ... "
"Anything else? Should I turn around?
Anne Eliot
#89. Writing and making films aren't different things to me. Or maybe it has become so, now. Making film is a very long process and you have to be physically strong. The literary work is more mystical, because it's only the writer, and connected to something inside.
Abdellah Taia
#90. There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions.
Kate Bush
#91. Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep,Who dare while others flyThey build a nations pillars deepAnd lift them to the sky.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#92. Baseball players have such a bad rap of, like, 'We don't work out or we're not strong or this or that.' Guys work so hard in baseball, it's incredible. But people don't know that.
Bryce Harper
#93. There is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong hope, the truth of which is never proved. Toil and illusion are the only secrets to make life tolerable ...
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#94. The task of the leaders must be to provide or create for them a strong framework within which they can learn, work hard, be productive and be rewarded accordingly. And this is not easy to achieve.
Lee Kuan Yew
#95. Among our people, theres not any question about women being strong
even stronger than men
they work in the fields right along with the men. When your survival is at stake, you dont have these questions about yourself like middle
class women do.
Dolores Huerta
#96. When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity.
Steve Pavlina
#97. This is th' abyss. Behold wherein I lurk
The lazar-house my mind, wherein do work
The horrid charnel-priests, whose loathly song
Sickens my soul, and quells the spirit strong.
Aleister Crowley
#98. It turns out that strong typing does not eliminate the need for careful testing. And I have found in my work that the sorts of errors that strong type checking finds are no the errors I worry about.
Douglas Crockford
#99. A good life is built on strong, solid values such as integrity, love, honesty, and purposeful work.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#100. I never saw an athletic girl that thought she was strong enough to do indoor work.
Kin Hubbard
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