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Do Your Job Quotes

A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward.
- Lee Child

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

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
- Oprah Winfrey

If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.
- Rene Auberjonois

You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.'
- Javier Bardem

I should probably warn you that I'm not real big on fairness and I have a below-zero tolerance on most things. Do your job. Do it right and we won't have any problems. Fuck up and I'll most likely kill you. Fuck up bad enough and I'll torture you first. (Thorn)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person.
- Elisabeth Rohm

That's when I first learned that it wasn't enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.
- Charles Bukowski

You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.
- Bob Dylan

Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.
- Cary Grant

When you're a professional you do your job no matter what gets in the way. You might take a sick day, you might take a personal day, but then you show back up or you won't get paid. Everyone develops his/her own strategy for dealing with days that are not productive.
- Charlaine Harris

Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.
- Hugh Jackman

I'm not into danger, either." "Aw, Chess. You so into it you ain't climb out with a rope. Why else you do your job, live down here, buy from Bump?" "It's justI meanI just do, is all." Her cheeks burned. She shouldn't have let him come in here. She should have just sent him home and let him wash his stupid shirt himself. "No shame in it. Some of us needs an edge on things make us feel right, else we ain't like feeling at all, aye?
- Stacia Kane

Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!
- Christine Lahti

He who stands on tiptoe
doesn't stand firm.
He who rushes ahead
doesn't go far.
He who tries to shine
dims his own light.
He who defines himself
can't know who he really is.
He who has power over others
can't empower himself.
He who clings to his work
will create nothing that endures.
If you want to accord with the Tao,
just do your job, then let go.
- Lao Tzu

I went to work. That was a turning point. When you have to do eight shows a week and your name is on the marquee, no matter what is going on at home or what's on the cover of the newspapers, you've got to do your job.
- Marla Maples

I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.
- Frances Mcdormand

Every once in a while, it pays to listen to those annoying characters who are just waiting to tell you how to do your job.
- Joe Mcnally

I'm not asking you to do your best. I'm asking you to do your job. -Dagny Taggart
- Ayn Rand

Every time I hear writers talk about 'the muse,' I just want to bitch-slap them. It's a job. Do your job.
- Nora Roberts

Every day, sincerely and without phoniness, Lou demonstrated by his actions how very vital it is - more than anything else - to understand and appreciate the people who work with you....Do your job well, learn your job well, but always remember that the people you work with are your most valuable asset. Embrace them. Honor them. Respect them" (206) "Prescriptions for Success" by John Schuerholz
- Denzel Washington

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.
- Ethel Waters

As far as starting or not starting, that means more to some players than others. And if it means more to someone else, I think you should let them start and just go out there and do your job when it's your turn.
- Sue Wicks

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