Billy Dee Williams Quotes

I had to work and it never occurred to me not to. But then it's never really been about the money.

I'm the kind of person that just goes in and does my job.

I am just working every day, day to day, with what I believe. It's a very ordinary way of dealing with your life - just dealing with your work.

I don't indulge in the luxury of feeling when necessity requires that we meet a target. One just bucks up and does it.

I'm not striving for happiness, I'm trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constantly rethinking and re-evaluating what you're doing, working and working until it's finished.

The Marines gave me a really strong sense of discipline and a work ethic that kicks in at my job.

I just have work to do; I just do it.

I was never overexposed and work never became a chore. I was a very good girl wanting to do a good job.

It's about working when nobody's watching.

When the time comes to work, I work.

Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.

Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.

It's my only religion to work hard, and then I'm not under any pressure because I know I've done the work on the character.

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.

I learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle class background - the Irish work ethic, which isn't quite the same as the Protestant work ethic - but still, it's, 'Get a job and show up every day. Be there. And don't complain. Who do you think you are: you're nobody special; go to work.'

We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.

I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.

My parents taught me that work ethic is one of the most important keys in life, and I believe it.

I have a strong work ethic.

I come from the kind of family where work is work; my parents always taught me that it's better to be doing something than sitting around doing nothing.

He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.

Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.

My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.

I try to be very much in control when it comes to work. I have a strong work ethic.