Martina Navratilova Quotes

Do good work.

If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own.

I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing.

With all due respect, I have a job to do, and that is to try and make 'Endeavour' the best it can be.

Work ethic is probably my No. 1 value and No. 1 attribute.

When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.

What I'm guilty of is trying the hardest and giving 100 percent of myself and putting my heart and soul into representing the people of Staten Island and Brooklyn.

I've had to work hard all my life, and I will never, ever ask a fan or reader to pay for something I've rushed. It's not fair to them, and I will never give them anything except my absolute best.

I've always been honest with all my kids. So I - if they did well, they did well. And if they didn't, actually, I asked, did you try your best? And if they tried their best, then, you know, I back out because I expect them to be honest with me or with themselves. And I can't make you go out there and work out hard.

Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'

I've taken a lot of time to build up the name Flavor Flav, but this could come tumbling down in 30 seconds. If you want to keep what you worked for hard all your life, then you got to do the right thing in your life.

It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions.

At Netflix, we think you have to build a sense of responsibility where people care about the enterprise. Hard work, like long hours at the office, doesn't matter as much to us. We care about great work.

I stand behind everything I've done.

When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.

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

It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.

I just want to do good work.

I think it's important to do a good job and not to feel that you've got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver.

Discipline, work. Work, discipline.

It's not how you play the game, it's how you place the blame.

I think it's important to do great work.